A few months ago, @lubos mentioned working the dev of this project: https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/oaif-open-accounting-format .
In my mind, apart from making moving to Manager easier for many people, this opens the door to easier data analysis. With a nightly (or on-demand) database snapshot in OAIF format, I could point BI tools at that and have a much easier time generating very strange reports as needed.
Today’s example: I need the sum of cash balances across 15 accounts on any given date, and the highest/lowest of those sums across a date range. For regulatory compliance. Easy to describe, but difficult to implement with the current api, or exporting dozens of spreadsheets and manually working with them. In a financial data relational db snapshot, that would be a trivial query.
Anyway, I’d be interested in any new info you can share on this.