text: We could have paid a bunch of clerks with that $81mm.  Including any and all the lazy ones.  SAP is a system for big International oil companies, large military organizations and cities with over 1 million people.  With only 350k people in Anchorage, tax payers must ask where is their return on investment?  This technology has a 20 year life span at best.  So it's already time to start R&D on the next financial operating platform.