Persistent Systems Helps Elance-oDesk Relaunch User Community to Better Serve Freelancers and Clients

SANTA CLARA, California and PUNE, India, February 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Elance-oDesk has re-launched their online user community, enabling improved user engagement for the company's customers - freelancers and businesses working together on http://www.oDesk.com . Built on Lithium Technologies platform, Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) customized and implemented the new community to foster greater collaboration and engagement.

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Elance-oDesk is the global leader in online work, empowering a community of more than 13.5 million people to find each other and work together via the Internet.

Elance-oDesk Community & Education Manager, Garnor Morantes
"Work is not just about earning money and doing a job; it's also about building relationships, learning about your craft and feeling a sense of place and accomplishment. We had discussion forums that were pretty active already, but our customers - freelancers in particular - were looking for something more. They wanted the tools to develop deeper relationships with each other and with us. And they wanted a platform experience that truly allowed them to feel part of a community. Working with Persistent, that's just what we've delivered."

Elance-oDesk User Community  

• Additional, faster ways for customers to learn and get help
• A place for customers to collaborate with each other
• Increased visibility in SEO
• Increased user engagement through features such as Kudos, Best Answers, and User Roles
• To view the Elance-Odesk customer testimonial click here.
• For more information on Digital Transformation click here.

Elance-oDesk Freelancer, Julianne Geiger
"Because almost all of us work online exclusively, it's easy to feel left out of the everyday face-to-face conversations, which can be so important for ideation. This is how we stay connected to other like-minded professionals and ask questions, share best practices, or even chat about the weather."

Vice President Social Practice at Persistent Systems, Ashish Seth
"Elance-oDesk is a great example of a software-driven company disrupting a traditional industry and in so doing providing better results for everyone involved. Elance-oDesk didn't simply modernize old systems, they fundamentally transformed their approach, resulting in a faster and greater ROI."

About Persistent Systems:

Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) builds software that drives the business of our customers; enterprises and software product companies with software at the core of their digital transformation.
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About Elance-oDesk 

Elance-oDesk is creating the world's largest online workplaces. Cumulatively, 3.8 million businesses and 9.7 million freelancers have tapped into Elance.com and oDesk.com to access talent via the Internet.

As an increasingly connected and independent workforce goes online, talent-like software, shopping and communications before it-is shifting to the cloud. This shift is making it faster and easier for businesses to hire for the skills they need, when they need them, while freeing professionals from set time and place work.

Freelancers are earning more than $940 million annually via Elance and oDesk. Elance-oDesk is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in San Francisco, California, and Oslo, Norway

Media Contacts: 

Rashmi Joshi
Persistent Systems
Corporate Communications
+ 91-830-833-9400
[email protected]

Ken Montgomery
Persistent Systems
Vice President, Global Communications
+1-949-939-5164
[email protected]

SOURCE Persistent Systems