Use Beiwe

The Beiwe Service Center (BSC) allows investigators to use the Beiwe platform under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. We create a Beiwe study on our production version of the Beiwe platform running on AWS. This service makes it possible for investigators to use Beiwe without having to deploy and maintain their own version of the open source code base.

Service through the BSC includes:

• Comprehensive study design and configuration support
• Assistance with IRB documentation of Beiwe platform
• In-depth platform training for your team
• Four-week beta testing phase to ensure setup accuracy
• Ongoing participant troubleshooting and technical support throughout your study
• Access to both raw data and summary metrics for in-depth insights
• Final data analysis at study completion using production Forest packages

Using Beiwe through the Beiwe Service Center is not a scientific collaboration with the Onnela Lab*

The cost of service to run a study through the Beiwe Service Center is used to cover operational costs, fix software bugs, and maintain the platform. The Beiwe costing model addresses costs across three categories: (1) personnel costs at Harvard; (2) data collection and storage costs on AWS;  and (3) software maintenance costs.

The pricing of any Beiwe Service Center service contract depends on three parameters:

1. Length of study in months (T) – the time period between study creation and completion
2. Length of data collection per subject in months (L) – the average length of data collection for each individual subject
3. Number of subjects (N) – the total number of subjects that data will be collected from during the contract period.

FY24 Example Pricing

Example 1.
A university-based investigator wants to collected data for N=50 subjects, where length of data collection per subject is L=3 months, and study duration is T=12 months. The total cost of the contract is $14,988.

Example 2.
A university-based investigator wants to collected data for N=25 subjects, where length of data collection per subject is L=12 months and study duration is T=12 months. The total cost of the contract is $19,335.

Example 3.
An investigator based at a for-profit entity wants to collected data for N=160 subjects, where length of data collection per subject is L=3 months, and study duration is T=12 months. The total cost of the contract is $19,828.