Entity-Wide Revenue, International, Percentage

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Payments to Acquire Business, Held in Escrow

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of the funds held on behalf of others and that are expected to be liquidated within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer. This does not include funds held under reinsurance agreements.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Total revenue from sale of goods and services rendered during the reporting period, in the normal course of business, reduced by sales returns and allowances, and sales discounts.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Description of Business) (Details) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended												12 Months Ended
	Nov. 02, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) ProductService_Groups	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Total revenue, international percentage														41.80%	28.40%	22.70%
Number of product/service groups \| ProductService_Groups														4
Operating revenue		$ 104,681	$ 92,800	$ 87,387	$ 79,103	$ 80,046	$ 74,608	$ 72,574	$ 71,066	$ 70,204	$ 66,813	$ 64,712	$ 63,753	$ 363,971	$ 298,294	$ 265,482
Payments to Acquire Business, Held in Escrow														4,040	0	0
Funds Held for Clients		$ 8,035				$ 14,394								8,035	14,394
Exchanges
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenue														259,470	206,427	190,746
Broker P&C Systems
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenue														14,674	14,105	14,481
RCS
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenue														86,832	74,196	55,917
Carrier P&C Systems
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenue														$ 2,995	3,566	$ 4,338
WDEV
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Payments to Acquire Business, Held in Escrow	$ 2,900														$ 2,900