CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North

CMIT Solutions takes care of your technology support and so much more - offering strategic advice, technological expertise, and the kind of insight and partnership you can only get from a trusted advisor.  CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North, IL is the small business IT support and IT services company for Arlington Heights, Bannockburn, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Glenview, Green Oaks, Half Day, Indian Creek, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Lincolnshire, Mettawa, Northbrook, Riverwoods, Schaumburg , Vernon Hills, Wheeling and surrounding areas. 

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Scott Graflund, Owner

Scott Graflund was born and raised in the Chicagoland area.  He attended DePaul University and Illinois Benedictine University where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Management Information Systems.  After completing his formal education, Scott spent twenty two years working for a global financial services firm gaining experience in technology software development, technology infrastructure management and IT strategy.  Throughout his corporate career, Scott always had a vision of finding a way to bring Fortune 500 quality IT Support and IT Services to small and medium sized businesses.  Scott founded CMIT Solutions of Arlington Heights in 2008 to make that vision a reality  and as the business has grown, recently rebranded it to CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North.

Member of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce

Bob Gilgenberg (President) - Bob Gilgenberg was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. He studied at McHenry County College and has a portfolio of technology certifications. Bob has spent 20+ years building a career focused on technology and small business.  Bob has built small businesses, managed small businesses, consulted with small businesses all with technology as the underlying focus of his efforts.Linda Dana (Business Development Executive) - Linda Dana was born in Western Illinois and moved to the Chicago area 25+ years ago.  Linda attended college in both Galesburg and the Chicago area with a focus on business.  Linda enjoys working with people and has focused her career in sales, sales management and business development.  Throughout her career, Linda has always taken pride in working with products and services which help her business clients acheive their short and long term goals in their buisness ventures.   

Our Local and Nationwide Team - CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North has four full-time local engineers and works in partnership with other Chicagoland area CMIT Solutions locations sharing resources, best practices and working collaboratively to provide area clients with a talented portfolio of local technology resources.  With more than 800 consultants and technicians   nationwide, CMIT Solutions has expertise in nearly all technologies and industries providing information technology services and solutions to thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across the nation.    

  

 

Areas of Focus - CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North specializes in Computer Maintenance, Computer Repair, Hardware Resale, Networking, Managed Services and Data Backup and Data Recovery.  CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North focuses on providing these services to small and medium sized businesses across Chicago's Northwest suburbs and surrounding areas. 

 

 

  • Thursday, January 1, 2009

    Of course you hear of businesses that have been destroyed by fire. From time to time I thought about it, but it never dawned on me that the adjoining business could catch fire and the fire would spread to my business. All my client information from the past 17 years was gone. So too were all of my financial, personnel and inventory records. It was going to take me months to reassemble all the information. While doing so, I ran into a computer consultant who told me I could have avoided all this if I had used a modern, automated backup system. He told me what to look for.

  • Monday, October 27, 2008

    As gas prices climbed this year, so did interest in small businesses offering work-at-home options for employees, said Shirley Peterson, owner of the Fort Worth franchise of CMIT Solutions.

    CMIT Solutions offers IT help for small businesses, including software training and setting up networks.

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  • Sunday, October 12, 2008

    MATTHEWS - Small to mid-sized businesses in the south Charlotte and Union County area have a new partner for their information technology needs; CMIT Solutions, a provider of managed services and IT support. The company will have a grand opening event at the Matthews Chamber of Commerce office, 210 Matthews Station St. from 7:30 am to 9 am on Thursday.

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  • Friday, October 3, 2008

    Couple joins ranks of small businesses looking to start over.

    Emory Simmons lost his information-technology job at Wachovia Corp. So he created a new one. Simmons and his wife, Carolyn, launched CMIT Solutions, an IT consulting firm, in August. The couple joined a group of entrepreneurs facing challenges as they move from corporate castles to the risky realm of small business.

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008

    Jeff Connally, president and CEO of CMIT Solutions, an IT services company with about 100 franchise locations across the US, talks about the company's recent DM campaign, "Aspirin."

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  • Monday, September 1, 2008

    After being laid off three times in 20 years, Jan Gissel looked for yet another corporate job for more than six months until she finally asked herself, "Do I really want to do this?"

    The first layoff, from a mom-and-pop public relations firm, "came as a total shock," said Gissel, who now owns a CMIT Solutions franchise in Tustin providing computer services to small- to mid-sized companies. "I had become part of the family; how could they lay off 'family'?"

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  • Sunday, August 10, 2008

    Ken Williams has opened a CMIT Solutions franchise at 13504 N.E. 84th St., Suite 103-313. CMIT monitors company computers 24-7 and has a 24-7 call center, and provides professional services and products to small and mid-sized businesses.

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  • Thursday, August 7, 2008

    Tomball resident Joe Nichols Jr. delivered the keynote address at the CMIT Solutions annual conference, held recently in Orlando, Fla.

    Nichols, owner of a freight logistics franchise, addressed the gathering of CMIT franchisees, partners and vendors, delivering a message on how to achieve success against all odds.

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  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008

    Tarrant County grows more connected by the minute. And that makes carrying around your laptop computer, either for work or pleasure, a lot more practical. We all know the familiar destinations for wireless Internet access - Starbucks, McDonald's - but there are so many places getting connected that it would fill pages to name them all. And if you're willing to invest in a broadband wireless card and monthly service plan, the choices are almost endless.

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  • Saturday, July 26, 2008

    I got an email that Microsoft was running a contest (it ended 5 July) for small businesses to win 5,000 gallons of gas. That's what When I got an email about $20,000 - depending on if your gas id $3.79, $4.79 or etc. However, the contest is over - sorry.

    In any case, I think the contest site is worth 5 seconds to check out - Bumptheslump.com. The tips it gives, such as using Microsoft Outlook to track makreting efforts, using Microsoft publisher to do in house printing and using Small Business Server to have a virtual office are quite focused on generating awareness for Microsoft products. However, the tips, nevertheless are useful.
     

Spam filters rank incoming emails using a point system according to the content of the message. If a message has enough red flags to cross a certain points threshold, off to the spam folder it goes. Don’t let your important emails languish in the recipient’s junk-mail folder. Avoid these red-flag items:

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If your laptop or desktop computer leaves a bit to be desired in the speed department (assuming it's not due to malware or insufficient system memory), you may want to consider swapping out the original hard drive with a new type of disk—a solid-state hard drive. Solid-state drives (SSDs) differ from their conventional hard disk drive (HDD) counterparts in that they have no moving parts.

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Inner-city students at charter school benefit from overhaul of IT system

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Software firm’s head tech guy relies on CMIT Solutions of Central Fairfield County to manage company’s IT system

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There’s been much speculation and rumor-mongering about an event happening on March 8th, 2012, that might knock “millions” of users off the Internet. Alarmists claim “the FBI plans to shut down the Internet” on that day. While we don’t normally comment on every virus/malware/Mayan-apocalypse rumor that pops up on the Internet, this one actually contains a smidgen of truth...

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"For our [clinical research facility], it was better to have a preventive plan in place so that if something did break, we would be ahead of it, and it wouldn’t break instead of waiting for something to happen and then fix it. So, now CMIT is monitoring everything, and we haven’t had any issues so they can catch the problem before it even happens. "
"CMIT is all about peace of mind, and literally, it doesn't cost you anything because you are saving the money on me working on the computer when I'm losing business. In today's economy, you don't want to be late sending bills out, you've got to be out there because if you start falling behind you're going to see the amount of income drop dramatically. So, Greg and CMIT make us look more...
"Whereas our systems were originally only getting backed up on a monthly basis, CMIT was able to come in and now they are automatically backed up to the server. We had a center in the DFW area that did lose everything. They made a phone call to CMIT, and CMIT was able to restore their data within a couple of hours. We’re monitored on a 24/7 basis, so even if there was something that were to...
"The way CMIT does business is just much more suitable for our type of business environment. We have deadlines and critical schedules to meet, and we need to be moving forward at all times. CMIT provides data on a monthly basis, which allows us to look at trends and be proactive with our decisions and our methods for improving our system. Every time my system improves, that means my efficiency...
"CMIT dealt with my local backup needs so that if I just need to get one specific piece of information, they can actually do it remotely from their office and get my people back and going. If I do have a catastrophic disaster that takes my entire building, I have laptops and everything else that I can have up immediately. I can use my web-based information storage and be back up and running...
"We pride ourselves that we are the company that gives instant customer service. We were getting to a point where it was extremely difficult, and we didn't want to lose our customer base. We wanted to also expand. I said, 'I need somebody to do something to allow us to be the company that we started out to be and to continue and to grow.' CMIT has helped us to do just that.   "
"Since partnering with CMIT, I can now not worry about whether or not my computers are working. I've got backups, monitoring, I can get reports, and I know where I'm having risks and threats. I now can rely on my IT people (CMIT) to take care of my IT problems and to keep that IT system up and running in an appropriate manner. That is something before I couldn't rely on. I now have a system!...
"We didn’t initiate offsite backups in the beginning, but with the start of the hurricane season we said, 'OK guys, we now have this wonderful system, but it's not really complete yet.' We're now able to back up our data, it's safely transported and stored offsite, and it’s all HIPAA compliant. And the NAS device can actually work as our server so we can continue to use our systems and do...
"With other IT service providers, we felt that we only got assistance when we requested it, and we normally came up with any ideas for improvements on our system rather than them. I was not impressed with the service, the communication or the end product at that point. Our experience has really set CMIT and Sue and John who run the show for them here apart from the others. They are more...
"We use large aerial imagery that can sometimes be 30 or 40 GB in size. There would be times that I would wait 30 seconds to a minute and a half for an image to appear. CMIT Solutions helped us rehabilitate the computers on hand, put in a network infrastructure, and put in faster switches. Now, it can be instantaneous to 15 seconds for a map to load. I kind of feel like I'm spoiled!   "

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