document: Look into the future of content management Predictions of consolidation in the Content Management -LRB- CM -RRB- vendor arena have appeared in nearly every major industry prognosis over the past two years . Gartner Group , for example , recently reiterated its prediction that half the CM vendors in existence in mid-2001 would leave the marketplace by the end of 2002 . Analysts consistently advise prospective CM buyers to tread carefully because their vendor may not stick around . But fortunately , the story goes , fewer vendor choices will finally bring greater clarity and sharper differentiators to this otherwise very messy product landscape . In fact , the number of CM vendors continues to rise . Industry growth has come through greater demand among CM buyers , but also expanding product functionality as well as successful partnerships . The marketplace certainly can not sustain its current breadth of vendors in the long run , yet it remains unclear when and how any serious industry consolidation will occur . In the meantime , evolving business models and feature sets have created just the kind of clearer segmentation and transparent product differences that were supposed to emerge following an industry contraction
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extractive_keyphrases: content management product functionality partnerships industry consolidation
abstractive_keyphrases: enterprise systems