Hosting Arrangements (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract]
Capitalized service contract costs	$ 1.1	$ 0.4

Hosting Arrangement, Service Contract, Implementation Cost, Capitalized, Before Accumulated Amortization

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