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Business Combination, Liabilities Arising from Contingencies, Potential Earn-Out Payments

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Business Combination, Period Allowed After Closing Date to Settled Indemnification and Other Claims

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Fair Value Inputs, Royalty Rate

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Payments to Acquire Business, Gross, After Adjustments

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Payments to Acquire Business, Gross, Escrow Deposit

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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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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Fair value at acquisition-date of the equity interest in the acquiree held by the acquirer, immediately before the acquisition date for businesses combined in stages.

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In a business combination achieved in stages, this element represents the amount of gain recognized by the entity as a result of remeasuring to fair value the equity interest in the acquiree it held before the business combination.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Business Acquisitions - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands			3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2015	Apr. 21, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014	Apr. 29, 2014
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Difference between fair value and carrying value as a gain			$ 0		$ 0	$ 3,443	$ 0
Avantec [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, amount withheld for idemnification	$ 1,800
Percentage of minority interest								15.00%
Carrying book value of previous equity interest	$ 1,300
Fair value of equity investment				$ 4,700
Difference between fair value and carrying value as a gain				3,400
Mach4 [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Payment to acquire business, amount in cash after adjustments		$ 17,200
Amount placed in escrow fund for business acquisition		$ 2,700
Period after closing date to settle indemnification and other claims		18 months
Mach4 [Member] \| Developed technology [Member] \| Income Approach Valuation Technique [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Discount rate		17.50%
Royalty rate		5.00%
Mach4 [Member] \| Trade names [Member] \| Income Approach Valuation Technique [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Royalty rate		2.00%
Mach4 [Member] \| Minimum [Member] \| Developed technology [Member] \| Income Approach Valuation Technique [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Discount rate		1.50%
Avantec [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Period after closing date to settle indemnification and other claims	18 months
Percentage of interest acquired	85.00%
Payment to acquire business, in cash	$ 12,000
Business acquisition, potential earn-out payment	$ 5,600
Difference between fair value and carrying value as a gain				$ 3,400
Avantec [Member] \| Trade names [Member] \| Income Approach Valuation Technique [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Royalty rate	1.00%
Avantec [Member] \| Payable After December 31, 2015 [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, potential earn-out payment	$ 3,000
Avantec [Member] \| Payable After December 31, 2016 [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, potential earn-out payment	$ 3,000