Case Study: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) achieves 60% faster time-to-market and 27% cost savings with Aptara's end-to-end digital journal production solution

Manual to Digital, End to End A New Journal Production Workflow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), operator of a leading digital library of journals, proceedings and learning resources, faced a cumbersome journal production process: an expensive editorial vendor, manual hard-copy editing that caused delays, and underused submission templates that required time-consuming post-submission fixes.

Aptara implemented a full end-to-end digital workflow—updating ACM’s XML DTD, creating accessible LaTeX (80%) and Word (20%) author templates, analyzing submissions to apply correct templates, and using BaKoMa TeX and PowerEdit plus ACM staging-site QA—resulting in a fully digital production model, ~60% faster time to market and ~27% lower production costs.

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