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. 

 

 

  • Friday, January 14, 2011

    Debra Reiter traveled the world as an executive for BP, while being based in Chicago and later 

    Naperville. But BP had her working more overseas than at home. 
    “Working for a large company and doing a lot of international travel got to the point that I didn't 
    have any connection to my own community,” said Reiter. “All the people I knew were overseas.”

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  • Thursday, December 23, 2010

    It's the new year and you are ready to turn over a new leaf.  You might begin with a new diet, a new exercise routine or, like many in today's new economy, you might be contemplating a new career.

  • Wednesday, December 1, 2010

    We know who you are and we’re watching. Seriously, as the SMB channel partner community has matured, discussions between SMB Technology Network (SMBTN) and SMB Nation—à la  SMB PC magazine—have resulted in the Top 150 list 

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  • Wednesday, November 17, 2010

    CMIT Solutions franchise network is a franchise  company that’s on the right track, helping small business owners to manage their technology needs.  In addition, this franchisor practices what they preach when it comes to supporting their franchisees.

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  • Friday, November 12, 2010

    One of the mantras recited by Republicans and their busniss allies during the run-up to the Nov. 2 election was the looming elimination of federal tax cuts passed in 2001 nd 2003 for the wealthy, small businesses, estates and investors.

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  • Wednesday, November 10, 2010

    Austin, TX - Theresa Jones is the owner of CMIT Solutions. She stopped by Good Day to share her insights on the pressures she has faced professionally in a male dominated industry. For 20 years Theresa has worked with a number of big name technology companies in Austin. She  has overcome all pressures and opened a local office for CMIT.

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  • Thursday, November 4, 2010

    Lifelong friends Wayne Demers, president of CMIT Solutions of the Merrimack Valley, and Steven Gesing, CEO of the same company, started a franchise business after facing tough times due to the ongoing economic crisis. Both 60, their ties together in Andover go as far back as second grade.

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  • Monday, October 25, 2010

    Reno businesses in need of a technological makeover can nominate themselves throughout September and October to win a technology makeover from CMIT Solutions of Reno, Microsoft and Dell.

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  • Friday, October 22, 2010

    CMIT Solutions is one of the leading small business IT franchise companies and it has expanded at a rate of 50 percent during this recent economic downturn. Now that’s something to celebrate! "Plain and simple, it’s a winning business model," said Jeff Connally, president and CEO of Austin, Texas-based CMIT Solutions. "We hit home hard on two key differentiators: First, we give downsized corporate America professionals or those seeking to make a career change a successful business model that fills a critical need today; second, small business owners can’t find the type of IT solutions we provide with tremendous affordability anywhere else."

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  • Saturday, October 16, 2010

    With the small business aid package signed into law in late September, many are interested to know how it will impact the sluggish U.S. economy. For instance, will employment increase? Will loans become readily available to small business owners?

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1. You constantly have to troubleshoot and fine-tune your network. This not only cuts into your productivity, but also your free time. Business technology has matured to a point where a properly configured network should run stably with little to no unscheduled maintenance. You’d be surprised how quickly a...

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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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