Mahatma Gandhi said, “Your future depends on what you do in the present.” The saying looks appropriate for business. In business regardless of the sector, your present is vital for your future. All the business processes depends on data. The viability of your business relies on how you manage your data. What is data management? The DAMA states, “Data management is the development, execution and administration of plans, policies, programs and practices that control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data and information resources .” Why data management process is outsourced? Organizations found data management to be Herculean business. On-site filing and data warehousing had become inadequate, and hefty sums of capital were spent capturing, organizing and validating data on the system, which significantly decreased data retrieval time. The data management was pivotal, that it cannot be blended with on-site processes. Organizations spent 40% of their time in managing their data. Companies found that their profits were clubbed with improper data management. As the data management needs expanded, the increasing number of companies preferred to outsource the universal endeavor. So, the data were outsourced to data management companies for effective management. The emergence of the data management system have delivered many technologies like; work flow, on-line publishing, e-commerce, automated business process etc.

The recent trends in data management systems are usage of Terra-byte scalable data management systems where the data's are entirely stored in the main-memory, Re-evolution of parallel database system and shift towards no-sharing topologies, and very importantly the usage of active archiving. Active archiving has emerged as a long standing solution for data management. The arrival of active archiving has resulted in smarter storage, maximum storage of resources, cost -benefit storage, improved performance, easy accessibility, improved availability, data restoration and so on. Archiving increases cardinal value to the organization like: manages data overload, data warehousing streamlining, effective storage management and etc. The usage of the trendy data management system, effects to the storage and processing of the data's to perfection. The technological advancement makes the data management process to be accurate and reliable. “It's not just your data, it's your future.”