ColdFusion is quite useful for internal (intranet) data search and reporting apps/pages that don't need lots of JavaScript eye-candy nor layer-happy frameworks. It makes it easy to stick hyperlinks in HTML data tables so managers can click to drill up, down, and all around to study data from different dimensions. There's also an open-source implementation or two, although I found the charting tools of the commercial version to be more mature.

I'd much rather use ColdFusion than Microsoft Power BI, if I had to choose. (MS-BI is probably a better fit for non-programmers.)