LiftShift—ERP Workload Offload & SLO Orchestrator
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Demand Score
Quarter‑end closes and MRP runs throttle ERP performance, halting operations and risking revenue recognition.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-40k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Separates read‑heavy analytics and batch from the transactional ERP. A sidecar agent streams CDC to a scalable warehouse/lake (Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks). We auto‑build operational marts (inventor
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Competitor Landscape
- Snowflake + Fivetran + dbt
- SAP HANA Live / BW/4HANA
- Qlik Replicate
- Azure Synapse Link
- Kafka Connect
Must-Have Features for MVP
Sidecar CDC agent with schema evolution handling
Incremental materialized views for key ERP domains
Transparent BI/query proxy with caching and rewrite rules
SLO‑aware workload shaping and spike protection
Perf observability: heatmaps, slow query finder, perf budgets
Self‑service sandboxes with cost guardrails
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Reliable CDC from legacy/on‑prem databases
- Acceptable latency targets for near‑real‑time data
- License constraints on read replicas
- Data residency/compliance in regulated regions
- User adoption of the BI proxy
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- 10x reporting speed improvement with <60s median latency
- Zero SLA violations on transactional workloads during peaks
- Cut unplanned ERP downtime tied to reporting by 90%
- No changes required to ERP custom code
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