CCH Database API
Please, please, please create a read-only CCH database API which would allow users to interface with ALL CCH data fields (every single one of them please!). What I'd love to see is essentially the same kind of thing as is currently possible with CCH Reporting, except without having to produce a report from within the CCH Central software, and then exporting to Excel for further data manipulation, and a less restricted scope in terms of the fields available to be selected.
It'd be incredibly useful to be able to directly interface with the CCH database via an API call or direct query to the SQL database, in order to pull that data for example in to the MS Office products, or in theory any other third-party program. I have so many ideas which could greatly improve efficiency of the internal processes within our firm, that require this single change to be made to CCH.
The database is a severely under-valued and under-utilised asset in many firms, and only by creating an API to the database would you allow your clients to unlock its full potential.
Ryan Ward
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There are a limited number of APIs available for CCH. Though we do not plan to build further APIs for our on-premise suite, we are planning to deliver API solutions as part of our cloud suite which will support this requirement.
