DocuSign says outsourcing to Aditi will cut costs by about 50 percent Electronic signature service provider DocuSign has outsourced product development to Aditi Technologies in Bangalore, India, according to an executive of DocuSign in Seattle.Besides cutting costs by about 50 percent, outsourcing to Aditi has given DocuSign flexibility in the size of the engineering staff working on its projects, said Jerry Barber, DocuSign’s vice president of technology in a recent interview.The opportunities for DocuSign have been growing faster than its own engineering staff could introduce more services to the market, Barber said. By outsourcing to Aditi, DocuSign can staff up very quickly for a project, without increasing its own engineering staff, he added. A number of U.S. and European companies are outsourcing product development to Indian firms specialized in this area. Start-ups are a key component of Aditi’s business, and the company works with some of the clients right from requirement definition and architecture of the product, said Anand Arkalgud, Aditi’s vice president for business development.Aditi has 12 staff currently working on adding new features to DocuSign’s services, and also supporting and maintaining its system. The company will also help DocuSign migrate the current system and services from Microsoft’s .Net environment to an environment based on Sun Microsystems’ Java and the Linux operating system.As DocuSign grows, it has become more cost effective to scale its service with Java running on the Linux operating system, Barber said. Manageability and security is also better on a Java and Linux environment, he added. The transition to a Linux and Java environment will happen by the end of this year, Barber said. Aditi’s staff currently work end-to-end on a project, including designing and testing a product. Down the line, DocuSign hopes to take advantage of the time difference between Seattle and Bangalore, and get teams at both locations to work on the same project, to cut time to market. Once that process is in place, the company’s own development team in Seattle will hand over work to Aditi’s staff at the end of each day.India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) in Delhi has identified outsourced product development as a new opportunity for the country’s outsourcing industry. Technology Industry