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.
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.
To one degree or another, the vast majority of businesses today rely on technology to operate. For those that depend on it, unscheduled downtime of critical network components results in more than inconvenience and frustration. Downtime equals lost profits.
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“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
Often find yourself wondering where all the time goes? Much in the same way that keeping track of expenses reveals where your money goes, keeping tabs on your time can help you make more efficient use of it by identifying waste and opportunities for increased productivity.
But first, you need to a way to track it....
Your regularly scheduled QuickTip has been pre-empted for this important communique from Revolution Headquarters:
Ladies and gentlemen, for far too long, we’ve suffered the tyranny of oppressive manual backups and slow network connections. We’ve endured the pestilence of spam, viruses, and spyware, endangering our data and our sanity.
We’ve had enough, and WE DEMAND...
As an IT service provider to small and medium-sized businesses, we see a few common problems among new customers. Whether because of oversight, ignorance, neglect, or user error, the following five issues keep many businesses from achieving their full potential and, at worst, jeopardize a company’s very existence.
We had a great response to the recent QuickTip entitled Quickly Prevent Unauthorized Use of Your Computer, where we showed you how to lock your PC using the “Windows Key + L” keyboard command.
Several people asked if there was a similar trick for Apple’s OS X operating system. There...
