The document discusses Flex 2 Data Services (FDS) and how it can be used with ColdFusion. FDS allows for server-side security, high performance, testing, collaboration, paging of large data volumes, data pushing, client synchronization, and real-time data delivery. Examples are provided for using FDS with ColdFusion for accessing CFCs remotely, enabling two-way data sharing in real-time, and building dashboards with automatically updating charts from submitted order data.