STOCK BASED COMPENSATION (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Schedule of stock-based compensation expense

The following table presents stock-based compensation expense included in the Company’s unaudited consolidated statements of income (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Cost of portal revenues, exclusive of depreciation & amortization	$	365	$	319	$	1,166	$	976
Cost of software & services revenues, exclusive of depreciation & amortization	36		22		112		66
Selling & administrative	1,480		776		3,686		3,253
Stock-based compensation expense	$	1,881	$	1,117	$	4,964	$	4,295