Q: Won't it be cheaper in the long run for us to develop our own in-house manuscript tracking system?

A: Editorial Manager is a commercial manuscript submission and tracking system that has been licensed to many publishers and scholarly societies. This means that customers benefit from the enhancements that are funded by a large customer base. Developing and maintaining a system that provides the equivalent functionality to Editorial Manager would cost of millions of dollars. In addition, substantial budgets would be required to pay for the on-going costs of hosting, bandwidth, redundancy, support and maintenance.

Because Editorial Manager makes provision for dynamic reconfiguration by the journal office, you experience all the advantages of developing a system that meets exactly your own needs, at a tiny fraction of the cost of a custom-developed system.