"Infodemic" is a term coined by David Rothkopf to describe an "information epidemic" where "few facts, mixed with fear, speculation and rumor, amplified and relayed swiftly worldwide by modern information technologies, have affected national and international economies, politics and even security in ways that are utterly disproportionate with the root realities."
Sounds to me like some corporate reporting systems I have known, The reason I mention this is that we are now looking at the next stage of our corporate reporting evolution - or business intelligence, as I must learn to call it.
We put in Business Objects years ago and upgraded to Xi 12 months ago but we have never really got the ROI we wanted, and are considering a shift to the evolving Microsoft platform of PerformancePoint / SQL Server Analysis Services.
Gartner's Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant for 2008 is a useful start.