# Pharos Reviews
**Vendor:** Semalytix  
**Category:** [Healthcare Commercial Intelligence Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/healthcare-commercial-intelligence)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Pharos
We develop pharma-tailored solutions to extract evidence from various data sources, including CRM systems, social media, job advertisements, clinical studies and other external data providers.




## Pharos Reviews
  ### 1. For charging students to print

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019

**What do you like best about Pharos?**

Enables us to have users print from any of the computers in our lab and holds the print job until they swipe a student ID that has enough stored value to pay for the job. Low overhead cost lets us charge just a couple of cents per page to cover supplies.

**What do you dislike about Pharos?**

Complex setup means only 2 of our staff know all of the nuts and bolts required to set it up if we deploy a new image to the computers in the lab. Also, very different setup process for Macs vs PCs means that there are two different systems to learn. Because we don't reconfigure it often, we have to go back to the setup instructions every time. And keeping track of them is a pain. (We got better at this a couple of years ago, when we did a "Business Continuity" review. I would recommend that for any users of this system.

**Recommendations to others considering Pharos:**

It's been the leader in its field for several years - for good reason

**What problems is Pharos solving and how is that benefiting you?**

For us, it solves the problem that "free printing" leads to overuse / abuse. Charging just a few pennies per double-sided page isn't a financial burden for users, but makes them stop and think. Also, the process of authorizing the job to print via Pharos stops accidental printing.
Also solves the problem of administrators not wanting us to provide printing. Allows us to recover the costs of allowing users to print, without making a profit on them.


## Pharos Discussions
  - [What is Pharos used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/pharos-what-is-pharos-used-for)
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## Pharos Features
**Data Management**
- Data Warehouse
- Data Analysis
- Data Capture

**Data Visualization**
- Reports
- Graphs and Charts
- Score Cards
- Dashboards

**Insights**
- Steps to Answer
- Data Discovery
- Search
- Collaboration /Workflow
- Predictive Analytics

**Data Preparation**
- Big Data
- Data Transformation
- Connectors
- Data Governance

**Data Modeling and Blending**
- Data Modeling
- Data Querying
- Data Filtering
- Automodeling
- Data Blending

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