Secure, Cloud-Native, Advanced Print Management for Professional Services
Pharos Cloud is a cloud-native print management platform designed for professional services organizations. It helps consulting firms, accounting and advisory organizations, legal services teams, business services enterprises, and other client-serving firms secure document printing, eliminate print servers, simplify enterprise print management, and gain visibility across distributed print environments while supporting Zero Trust security principles.
A Print Management Solution Built for Every Professional Services Organization
From global firms to specialized practices, Pharos Cloud provides the security, reliability, and centralized control needed to simplify and streamline print across complex, distributed environments, from corporate headquarters and regional offices to client sites and hybrid workspaces.
Consulting Firms
Accounting and Advisory
Legal Services
Business Services
Professional Services Have Changed. Print Hasn’t.
Professional services firms are increasingly digital, distributed, and client-focused, yet printing remains part of everyday business and client workflows. Contracts, reports, financial records, legal documents, presentations, and other sensitive materials still need to be printed securely wherever professionals work.
As firms expand across offices and embrace hybrid work, legacy print infrastructure adds unnecessary complexity for IT. Professional services organizations need a modern, streamlined approach that protects confidential information, reduces infrastructure, improves visibility, increases productivity, and delivers a consistent print experience across locations.
Pharos Cloud brings print into the modern professional services environment with secure, cloud-native management built for distributed, client-focused organizations.
From Legacy Print to a Modern Print
Management Service
| Challenge | How Pharos Cloud Helps |
|---|---|
| Legacy print servers increase infrastructure costs and administrative overhead. | Eliminate print servers with cloud-native print management. |
| Confidential client and business documents can be left exposed on shared printers. | Protect sensitive documents with authenticated print release. |
| Print device management across offices consumes valuable IT resources. | Centrally manage print devices, users, and policies across locations. |
| Professionals need reliable printing across offices, client sites, and changing work environments. | Simplify printing with direct IP, location-aware printing, mobile access, and centralized driver management. |
| Limited visibility makes it difficult to understand print activity and costs across offices. | Gain centralized visibility into print activity, costs, and device health. |
| Growing security requirements demand stronger document protection. | Enhance security and support Zero Trust principles with end-to-end encryption, ISO 27001 certification, and SOC 2® attestation. |
| Office openings, consolidations, and acquisitions leave IT managing inconsistent print environments. | Bring locations onto a centralized print platform without deploying new print servers. |
Protect Client Documents
With Secure Print
Professional services firms handle confidential information every day, from contracts and financial records to legal documents, reports, and other sensitive client materials. Pharos Cloud helps firms reduce exposure and strengthen document management, giving you control over printed information with secure, authenticated printing.
- Hold jobs containing sensitive information until authorized users release them
- Implement user authentication with badge, mobile, or credentials
- Reduce confidential documents left at shared printers
- Apply consistent print policies across offices
- Strengthen audit readiness and compliance efforts
- Support Zero Trust with ISO 27001 and SOC 2® attestation
Modernize Print Infrastructure
and Workflows
Printer management across headquarters, regional offices, client sites, and hybrid teams shouldn’t require legacy print infrastructure. Pharos Cloud provides a secure, cloud-native platform that simplifies administration, reduces infrastructure, and supports broader IT modernization.
- Eliminate print servers and reduce infrastructure costs
- Centrally manage printers, users, and policies
- Simplify administration across distributed offices
- Support multi-vendor printer fleets
- Support office, hybrid, and mobile professionals
- Reduce ongoing maintenance and IT overhead
Gain Visibility Across
Every Office
When print is distributed across offices, departments, and teams, it can be difficult to understand usage, control costs, and identify inefficiencies. Pharos Cloud provides centralized analytics that help IT teams monitor activity, uncover savings, and optimize print resources across the firm.
- Monitor usage across offices and departments
- Understand print costs and usage trends
- Identify high-volume users, devices, and workflows
- Uncover waste and potential cost savings
- Monitor trends and identify outliers
- Make data-driven optimization decisions
Centralize Print Management
Across Your Firm
Managing print across multiple offices, departments, and locations can create unnecessary complexity for IT teams. Pharos Cloud brings printers, users, print queues, drivers, and policies into one centralized platform, giving firms consistent control over their print environment.
- Manage printers, users, and print queues from one platform
- Centralize print policies across offices and departments
- Manage multi-vendor printer fleets from a single console
- Simplify print driver management
- Apply consistent controls across distributed environments
- Reduce the complexity of managing print location by location
Keep Professionals
Focused on Clients
Whether preparing client presentations, reviewing contracts, working from another office, or supporting an engagement on-site, professionals need printing that simply works. Pharos Cloud delivers a secure, consistent print experience across work environments while reducing print-related friction for employees and IT.
- Deliver a consistent print experience across locations
- Enable direct IP and secure release printing
- Simplify printing with location-aware workflows
- Support office, hybrid, and mobile professionals
- Reduce print-related friction and support requests
- Keep IT focused on higher-value initiatives
Reduce Costs and Waste
From Print Operations
Unmanaged printing can drive unnecessary costs through excessive usage, inefficient devices, and wasted resources. Pharos Cloud gives professional services firms greater control over print activity, helping IT teams identify opportunities to reduce waste and optimize their print environment.
- Identify unnecessary and excessive print activity
- Reduce wasted pages and unclaimed print jobs
- Analyze print costs by user, department, and device
- Identify opportunities to consolidate or optimize devices
- Apply print policies that support cost control
- Use print data to inform smarter purchasing decisions
Future-Ready Print Solutions for Professional Services
As professional services firms modernize infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and support increasingly distributed teams, print shouldn’t remain tied to legacy technology. Pharos Cloud provides a secure, cloud-native foundation that helps firms eliminate print servers, protect confidential client information, improve visibility, and simplify print operations across the organization. Align your printing with your current business needs and future goals.
Built for modern, client-focused firms, Pharos Cloud helps make print a secure, integrated part of the professional services IT environment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is professional services print management?
Professional services print management is the process of securely managing printing, print infrastructure, user access, device fleets, policies, and print data across consulting firms, accounting and advisory organizations, legal services teams, business services enterprises, and other client-serving firms.
How does Pharos help professional services organizations modernize print?
Pharos Cloud helps professional services organizations eliminate print servers, centralize print administration, strengthen document security, improve visibility into print usage, and support consistent employee printing across distributed environments.
How does secure release printing support professional services security?
Secure release printing requires users to authenticate at the device before a document prints. This helps reduce the risk of confidential client or business documents being left unattended in output trays.
Can Pharos Cloud support multi-vendor print fleets?
Yes. Pharos Cloud is designed to manage enterprise printing across multi-vendor fleets through centralized control, print driver management, analytics, and supported integrations.
Why move professional services print infrastructure to the cloud?
Cloud print management can help reduce reliance on on-premises print servers, simplify IT operations, improve security controls, and give administrators better visibility into print usage and cost.
What is PrintOps for professional services?
PrintOps is the modern, integrated, user-centric, and cloud-native approach to managing printing and the infrastructure and operations behind it. For professional services organizations, PrintOps helps bring print into the same operating model as enterprise IT: secure, governed, visible, scalable, and easier for employees to use.
What types of professional services organizations does Pharos Cloud support?
Pharos Cloud supports large consulting firms, accounting and advisory organizations, legal services teams, business services enterprises, and related client-serving operations that need secure, cloud-native print management.
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