Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? (yro.slashdot.org)

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America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data^___^

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[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 day ago

Pirate... Tableau? Which is either free for individual use or an enterprise level reporting platform? Don't get me wrong this patent is hilariously bullshit but there is nothing to pirate.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I speaking in general about proprietary software.

""""free"""" for individual use

The "free" version is extremely limited ofc. If one wanted to pirate Tableau, they should pirate the enterprise/full version of Tableau which "includes everything in Tableau."

[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 14 hours ago

That's not corporate PR, I've been a Tableau developer for many years. If you're trying to analyze data or build a visualization to drop into a PowerPoint report the standalone version will do it, free. If you want to host a report for multiple people to use you need to purchase a server installation. You use the exact same Desktop application to make the report, you just don't have a server to host the report on.

I have a laundry list of things I don't like about Tableau or Salesforce, but the fact that they charge for an enterprise installation isn't one of them because duh doy, of course they do. The patent is bullshit, we already established that, but they're an enterprise oriented company, mf'ers aren't setting up a Tableau server for their family to share power usage reports to show them the need to turn lights off when they leave a room...