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. 

 

 

  • Wednesday, July 14, 2010

    CMIT Solutions, the information technology partner to small businesses throughout the U.S., invites small business owners and management to take advantage of their free Summer Webinar Series, "Growing Your Small Business (without giving up your life)," featuring Lisa Earle McLeod.

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  • Tuesday, July 6, 2010

    CMIT Solutions acts as a trusted IT partner for small businesses trying to do more with less money and time. We are part of a nationwide firm that supports business by managing and maintaining their computer technology so the business can run smoothly and efficiently. We provide small companies with affordable services that have been enjoyed by larder companies for many years. 

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  • Friday, June 25, 2010

    One year ago, the investors at CMIT Solutions Inc. asked CEO Jeff Connally to propose ways they could cash out. Connally - who was an investor in CMIT, along with 29 others - considered several options before hitting on what he considered the best solution: He bought the company.

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  • Tuesday, June 8, 2010

    CMIT Solutions, the nation's leading provider of information technology (IT) professional services and products to small businesses, named John and Sue Smythe, co-owners of CMIT Solutions of Everett, the winners of the prestigious 2010 President's Award.

    Presented to the CMIT Solutions franchisee who best demonstrates the company's core beliefs, the President's Award honors the Smythes for their commitment to collaboration - an organizational goal that promotes franchisees' devotion to one another, family and community.

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  • Monday, June 7, 2010

    The first half of 2010 has been one for the record books in many parts of the United States. Tornadoes and floods have devastated larges areas, causing deaths, property damage, and endangering IT operations and the security of data. For instance, in early May, the U.S. Navy Personnel Command offices in Millington, Tenn., were covered in several feet of water, putting IT operations out of business and stopping promotions and personnel transfers across the Navy for days.

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  • Thursday, June 3, 2010

    CMIT Solutions of Manhattan, Grand Central won the national organization’s Franchise of the Year Award for its achievements in the last year. The award recognizes franchise owners and their businesses based on sales, performance, and leadership within the franchise system.

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  • Thursday, May 6, 2010

    After 30 years in corporate IT, Plainview’s Larry Schweitzer was ready for something different and ready to be his own boss.

    He achieved half of his objectives.
    At 55, Schweitzer was interested in investing in a franchise and thought something in the food business might be a good fit. Browsing at a franchise show on the Island last winter, he checked out a couple of fast food opportunities, but ultimately kept walking.

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  • Sunday, May 2, 2010

    This interview is part of ITworld's regular "How I Got Here" series which focuses on the career path of successful IT professionals. Paul Okura has successfully navigated two cultures throughout his longcareer in finance, moving deftly between Japan and the United States. 

    Starting out with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NYU, Paul didn't exactly have the traditional background to become a banker, but the presentation skills he learned while studying film and television in school contributed to his success in finance.  

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    The American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado: Phil and Debi Bush of CMIT Solutions of Denver announced the winner of the "Colorado Technology Makeover" at April 14's Business Before Hours event hosted by the Greater Glendale Chamber of Commerce.

    Marilen Reimer, the executive director of The American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado, accepted the award on behalf of the company.

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  • Friday, April 2, 2010

    When IT engineer Susan Bateman worked as a project manager for IBM, she noticed that, during conference calls, a member of her technical team from IBM India always called her "Sir."

    After the third time it happened, she asked, "Last summer when you worked with me in Boulder, did you think I was a man?" He answered "Oh, no, Susan! It's just that I've never had a lady boss before."

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A photo on Intel's Facebook page posted today shows a technician working on Telstar 1, the world's first telecommunications satellite, which was launched into orbit in this week in 1962. The 170-pound contraption successfully relayed the first television pictures and telephone calls ever transmitted through space. Telstar facilited the first live...

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This has not been a good few weeks for the world of Internet security. Just over a month ago, business-networking site LinkedIn had the passwords of millions of its users posted to a hacker forum.

Today, Yahoo! Inc. confirmed that a file containing what appear to be usernames and passwords for 453,492 accounts had briefly been posted online. However, it appears that it's not just Yahoo...

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For many small-business owners, spending time “at the office” is becoming more and more of a luxury. With days spent out on sales calls, networking, running errands, or generally being out-and-about, owners often have limited time for staying on top of day-to-day operations.

Fortunately, recent advances in technology provide powerful methods for staying connected while on-...

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Change isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, but if it has a detrimental effect on your ability to communicate, it’s hard to argue that it’s not. Especially when those changes are made without warning and without your permission.

So what is this change? Last week, Facebook summarily decided that its users should be using their @facebook.com address (did you even know you had an @...

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"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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