The company's platform, CDAP, provides a code-free self-service environment that enables rapid development in the public or private cloud. CDAP reduces the time to production for data lakes and data applications by 80% through standardized APIs, configurable templates, and visual interfaces. It integrates with existing MDM, BI, security, and governance solutions and provides essential capabilities such as abstraction of data, integration of big data ecosystem components, portability of data lakes and applications, APIs, services, and self-service tools for faster application development and deployment, and higher degrees of operational control in production. Cask is backed by leading investors and has customers and partners such as AT&T, AWS, Cloudera, Ericsson, Google, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Thomson Reuters.