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by a_liang 3378 days ago
One thing to consider was that we had to build this in about 5-6 months from the ground up, and match it to our existing financial system. Most of the work was to derive the financial meaning from a system not designed to provide it. The traditional ways you would extract data into an ERP would be with raw data import, or with some slightly processed data. If we did that, we still have the problem of tightly coupling data models and accounting logic, which makes for very slow engineering progress on the product front. Not a tradeoff we want to make.

If you were talking about exporting the data from the event based system, then that's still possible, and I think it's something that our finance team may still be evaluating, but I can't speak for them.