Office file interoperability
Automatically generate office documents for reporting, decision making, and presentations. Read, create, and update spreadsheets using the new CFSPREADSHEET tag. Automatically generate PDF files from Microsoft PowerPoint and Word files. Dynamically produce presentations in HTML or SWF from PowerPoint presentations directly on the server.

Object-relational mapping
Build database-independent applications using object-relational mapping (ORM) based on the open source Hibernate library. Save time and manage database logic and connectivity without writing any SQL. Use the ORM Application Wizard in Adobe ColdFusion Builder™ software to generate ColdFusion components (CFCs) for logic and connectivity without a single line of code.

New Ajax controls
Build more compelling and intuitive applications with a broader set of Ajax controls that leverage the new Ext JS 3.0 library via CFML tags and attributes. New controls include mapping, multimedia player, multifile upload, accordion navigation, progress indicator, confirmations, alerts, buttons, and sliders.

Enhanced PDF functionality
Reduce required code by adding images to PDF files directly within the CFPDF tag. Brand and protect files by easily adding watermarks, headers, and footers to your PDF files.

Adobe AIR® local/remote database synchronization
Offer users applications with online/offline capability featuring reliable data management. Using SQLLite in the client and ORM on the server, ColdFusion 9 automatically manages conflict resolution and data synchronization between the client and server when your application comes back online.

Server Manager
Save time by simultaneously performing administrative tasks across multiple servers from one central console. You can create data sources, schedule tasks, apply hot fixes, clear caches, and compare settings across a cluster of ColdFusion servers.

Enhanced Adobe Flash Platform integration
Take advantage of faster Flash Remoting to increase application performance. Use ColdFusion as a Service to speed up RIA development by easily accessing many existing enterprise services via AMF without writing a single line of CFML.

User-based Administrator and RDS access
Improve application security by restricting access to the ColdFusion server. Create multiple ColdFusion Administrator and Remote Development Services (RDS) accounts with individual permissions. Permissions determine which pages and functions are accessible in the ColdFusion Administrator and the Administrator API.

ColdFusion as a Service
Leverage the power of ColdFusion enterprise services via AMF or SOAP without writing a single line of CFML. These services include CFCHART, CFDOCUMENT, CFIMAGE, CFMAIL, CFPDF, and CFPOP. Additionally, make your application more secure by sandboxing these services to prevent access by unknown applications.

Instance-based licensing
Now take your ColdFusion applications to the cloud with new instance-based licensing in ColdFusion 9. In addition to your physical deployment, install ColdFusion 9 on up to 10 virtual instances in the cloud environment of your choice.

Server Monitor
Improve usability through greater visibility into internal application performance. By providing information about the server — including requests, queries, memory usage, and errors — the Server Monitor and Multiserver Monitor allow you to troubleshoot and fine-tune applications in development and production. Set alerts and other actions to help prevent memory problems, slow pages, or other performance issues.