Information overload is the subject raised in this paper. Managers in industry are increasingly finding themselves spending more time on repetitive and low-value tasks associated with collecting, processing and reporting environmental information. Initially, this was mostly associated with the need to manage legislation but now it includes communicating data and information to external third parties. There is a greater need to predict, monitor and report on environmental issues such as emissions. This has meant that companies need to monitor and measure more parameters and gather the data into reports. While many organisations have used spreadsheets, these in time have become less flexible. The trend is to reduce the amount of costly human involvement in monitoring and reporting and to let software do the job. This paper will look at these new challenges faced by companies and how they are using technology to address them.