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The highly fragmented STE instrumentation industry continues to be consolidated by both large instrumentation conglomerates in the U.S. and Europe, as well as well-financed and aggressive mid-sized manufacturers seeking to buy and combine small niche players at attractive valuations.

Despite the fact that mention of knowledge management to justify an infrastructure investment still draws the "B.S."� flag, demonstrable results in areas such as sales effectiveness and training have helped rationalize in recent months, the value propositions of vendors whose technology offerings fall under the "Knowledge Infrastructure"� (KI) umbrella.

As slow economic growth has caused many large organizations to rethink their operational goals, many corporations have been selling off, "spinning out," or winding down underperforming or non-core businesses.

It was roughly two years ago that the term 'Management Service Provider' (MSP) was first coined. Long gone are the days that VCs would back these providers of remote IT infrastructure services with tens of millions of dollars.