Dream #1

An open source API - To read/import data from tally

Why I consider an open source API to read/import data from tally is badly needed.

1. Moving to a custom made enterprise application from tally

There are around 1 million official customers for tally. I am sure there will be another half a million unofficial customers (Pirated). Lot of these customers will be using tally for years and when they need to move to their own custom made enterprise applications or different packages from tally as business requirements changes by time, they have left with two choices.

1. Re-Enter all data into the new system
2. Contact tally and pay huge amount of money

How about if they have an open source API, when they moving from tally to a custom made enterprise application. It will be a smooth ride for them.

2. Moving away from pirated version
     As we noted early, half a million customers is a big thing. Once government or tally started tightening screws for piracy they will find nowhere to go. I think there are two main reasons, which keeps them in tally. (Apart from it’s great features, one is user interface lock-in and another one is data lock-in.

1. Use interface lock-in
     Customers have used to the interface, ctlr-keys and short cuts of tally. Moving away from tally means there will be a big learning curve for them. (We will see what can be done for this in future posts).

2. Data lock-in
      It is not always easy to re-enter the bunch of data into a new package, which is very expensive and time-consuming operation

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