The document summarizes the Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP), which provides an integrated framework for building and running data applications on Hadoop and Spark. It consolidates the big data application lifecycle by providing dataset abstractions, self-service data, metrics and log collection, lineage, audit, and access control. CDAP has an application container architecture with reusable programming abstractions and global user and machine metadata. It aims to simplify deploying and operating big data applications in enterprises by integrating technologies like YARN, HBase, Kafka and Spark.