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Introducing Project Workspace: SATRE Compliant Trusted Research Environment from £95/month
What Project Workspace Solves
Researchers working with sensitive data such as patient records, genomic datasets and clinical information need secure infrastructure with proper certifications and audit controls. Setting up such environments typically takes significant time and effort as well as dedicated IT investment. Often the costs of these are not considered in research grant applications, and when bespoke setup is required, those costs can quickly become prohibitive.
As a result, these types of environments can be out of reach for early-stage projects, PhD students, and smaller teams, restricting access to data and preventing effective research and progress. In some cases, it leads to compromised solutions that are difficult to use with limited support.
Built to address this need, the Aridhia DRE Project Workspace provides a fully configured, SATRE compliant, trusted research environment within 24 hours of sign-up, with all the security credentials you expect and require already in place.
What’s Included
Each workspace comes with a full R development environment, pre-installed with common biostatistics packages, Jupyter Lab, VS Code, Terminal access for scripting, background job execution framework, and Collabora Office for real time editing, collaboration and review of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Out of the box and all without the need to run a dedicated virtual machine.
You will also have a dedicated PostgreSQL database with automatic type detection, 50GB of secure file storage with malware scanning, and 20+ low-code statistical modules covering logistic regression, ANOVA, t-tests, and more.
All data transfer passes through audited airlocks with complete traceability, and the workspace includes role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and comprehensive audit logging.
Security Credentials
Your Project Workspace runs on the same Azure infrastructure as our enterprise deployments, with ISO 27001/27701, HITRUST, and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Aridhia was the first commercial TRE provider to publicly evaluate against the UK’s Standard Architecture for Trusted Research Environments (SATRE) specification, achieving a 96% compliance score across Information Governance, Computing Technology, Data Management, and Supporting Capabilities.
Who It’s For
Project Workspace suits PhD students and postdocs who need compliant environments for sensitive data analysis, biotech teams developing algorithms on real-world clinical data, principal investigators who want to demonstrate security controls to data controllers, and clinicians working on quality improvement projects with hospital data. For teams that outgrow the project tier, upgrade paths to Premium and Enterprise add multi-user workspaces, expanded storage, ‘bring your own apps’, dedicated virtual machines, and features like federated data access, federated learning, FAIR metadata catalogue, and access to Aira, the secure workspace AI sandbox.
Getting Started
Project Workspace costs start from just £95/month for a single user, with a free trial available, available within the UK and Australia. If you are from another region, we’d still love to hear from you so please get in touch.
Full documentation is available at knowledgebase.aridhia.io.