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Consolidated Financial Statement Details (Components of Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 3 Months Ended | 6 Months Ended |
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Jun. 30, 2021 | Jun. 30, 2020 | Jun. 30, 2021 | Jun. 30, 2020 | Dec. 31, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |  |  |  |  |  |
Costs of obtaining contracts | [1],[2] | $ 81,478 |  | $ 81,478 |  | $ 84,914
Prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions, current and long-term | [3] | 32,599 |  | 32,599 |  | 24,471
Receivables for probable insurance recoveries | [4] | 23,373 |  | 23,373 |  | 6,288
Implementation costs for cloud computing arrangements | [5],[6] | 12,068 |  | 12,068 |  | 11,298
Unbilled accounts receivable |  | 5,579 |  | 5,579 |  | 10,385
Prepaid insurance |  | 4,991 |  | 4,991 |  | 1,426
Derivative instruments |  | 2,061 |  | 2,061 |  | 0
Taxes, prepaid and receivable |  | 1,474 |  | 1,474 |  | 1,891
Other assets |  | 10,536 |  | 10,536 |  | 10,332
Total prepaid expenses and other assets |  | 174,159 |  | 174,159 |  | 151,005
Less: Long-term portion |  | 70,666 |  | 70,666 |  | 72,639
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |  | 103,493 |  | 103,493 |  | 78,366
Amortization expense from costs of obtaining contracts |  | 9,000 | $ 9,400 | 18,200 | $ 18,900 |
Current portion of costs of obtaining contracts |  | 31,000 |  | 31,000 |  | 31,900
Prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions, current |  | 28,200 |  | 28,200 |  | 19,800
Implementation costs for cloud computing arrangements, amortization |  |  |  | 900 |  |
Implementation costs for cloud computing arrangements, accumulated amortization |  | $ 2,000 |  | $ 2,000 |  | $ 1,100
[1] | Amortization expense from costs of obtaining contracts was $9.0 million and $18.2 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and $9.4 million and $18.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.
[2] | The current portion of costs of obtaining contracts as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was $31.0 million and $31.9 million, respectively.
[3] | The current portion of prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was $28.2 million and $19.8 million, respectively.
[4] | See discussion of the Security Incident at Note 9.
[5] | Amortization expense from capitalized cloud computing implementation costs was insignificant and $0.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and insignificant for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020. Accumulated amortization for these costs was $2.0 million as of June 30, 2021 and $1.1 million as of December 31, 2020.
[6] | These costs primarily relate to the multi-year implementations of our new global enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems.

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