Technology plays an important role in managing business. Business backed by the latest technology will have a positive impact in achieving the objectives and targets. In addition, the use of information technology in data management can maximize the ability of an organization to be more successful. Therefore, North America accounting professionals have done a survey to assess the information technology used in two countries conducted in United States (U.S.) and Canada. They come out with ten top technology initiatives in the survey and every technology initiatives give different weightings between the two countries. From the survey, they conclude that managing and retaining data are most important in the organization. Followed by securing the IT environment which is important to defend the system from cyber attacks. While others technology initiatives are located on different rankings. U.S. survey concerned with the management of information technology risk and the methods used to protect the security of company data. While Canada is more concerned with the organization abilities in the use of information technology. Even from the survey showed rankings respectively, but a measure of the level of confidents of the respondents were also done on the organization that implements technology initiatives. Based on the result of survey showed that the highest confidence level was on managing and retaining data for both U.S and Canada which is more than 50%. Managing and retaining data is most important task in order to prevent data loss and corrupt. Every organization needs a strategic plan to manage company data for a variety of usage. Through systematic data storage, the company is able to make quick and accurate decisions based on quality data. In addition, managing and retaining data is very important in controlling large data or big data nowadays and to keep the data in real time basis. In order of managing data, organization must con