While the exact savings naturally vary per program, the answer is always, "Very high!"

Many of the administrative processes that Piestar handles fail to receive a formal budget allocation—meaning that in reality they will be passed off as manual tasks to team members. But when we take the sunken financial value of team members' time being spent completing these tasks and compound that figure by an average rate of occurrence of common pitfalls of manual processes (human error, difficulty scaling efforts, personnel changes), the actual cost of not using a dedicated solution can be astronomical, and unfortunately serve as a structural limitation on potential discovery.

Over the total lifecycle of the research program, this savings benefit grows even greater as Piestar scales easily to meet the requirements of tracking program efforts over time.

Not at all! After implementation, administrators can customize and manage their version of Piestar without any developer assistance. This is by design, to help research teams to lower their programs' operating costs, increase efficiencies, and ultimately possess a greater degree of ownership of their research program data.