Consolidation is in the air. Across Europe and the US, governments and corporations are rationalising thousands of websites down to a small core of key sites and portals. The disparate portfolio of websites, repositories and content management systems built up over the past decade is being pruned.

It is easy to see why a chief information officer might want to surf this trend. A combination of corporate mergers and devolved web governance has left many organisations with dozens of content management systems and supporting applications. For the sake of sheer tidiness alone, it would be nice to have a shorter list.