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Elance is an online staffing platform based in Mountain View, California, United States operated by Upwork. ==Background== Elance was first launched in 1999, its name inspired by a 1998 ''Harvard Business Review'' article titled "The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy". It was initially developed as a technology for supporting virtual work. Two years later Elance introduced a vendor management system (VMS) for contractors and third-party services used by large enterprises.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=5 Things to Know Before Becoming an Elance Provider )〕 In 2006 Elance sold its enterprise software division and developed instead its current web-based platform for online, contingent work. , Elance is used by approximately 500,000 businesses and 2 million registered freelance professionals, who have collectively earned nearly $850 million to date. A merger with oDesk, another online staffing platform, was confirmed in December 2013. The deal was finalized in April 2014 and the two companies will create a resource that consists of 8 million freelancers and 2 million businesses. Elance-oDesk relaunched as Upwork in May 2015 with Elance remaining as an Upwork company. Although Elance is still a stand-alone site operated by Upwork, it is expected to merge into the Upwork platform in the near future.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=oDesk Becomes Upwork, But What About Elance? )〕 The two platforms consist of 10 million freelancers and 4 million businesses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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