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, March 25, 2010

    Hotel Wi-Fi is counterintuitive: Low-budget spots tend to offer it free of charge, while luxury resorts charge an arm and a leg. But that may soon change as customers start demanding free wireless as a basic human right.

    In 2010, travelers have come to expect a few complimentary amenities when they check into their rooms. And as travelers look to stay connected on the road, reliable high-speed Internet access is increasingly on the short list of hotel necessities - especially wireless access, or Wi-Fi.

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  • Thursday, March 25, 2010

    Predicting small business trends -- especially small business computing trends -- is a tricky proposition at best. It helps to get a dose of reality from people who use technology to run their business every day. Never one to work in a vacuum, Laurie McCabe, a principal at the SMB Group, spent the day with more than 500 small business owners at the 2010 Small Business Technology Summit. Here's her take on the experience.

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  • Friday, March 5, 2010

    TECH MAKEOVER: CMIT Solutions of Denver is offering a custom technology makeover, worth up to $55,200, to one lucky small business.

    "I've been wanting to do this for a couple of years, because I've seen the need in the small business market to make something available like this," says Debi Bush, chief marketing officer. "Businesses that even are doing well may not want to upgrade all kinds of technology because of the cash-flow issue."

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  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010

    Soon after BCLA relocated its offices in late 2008, Len Farias paid a visit. IE March of 2007, he hadestablished "CMIT Solutions of South Brevard" to provide top quality information technology services to small and mid-sized businesses in Brevard. In a marketplace flooded with IT companies, CMIT stands out by offering the personalized attention of a local service with all the support of a national network.

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  • Friday, January 29, 2010

    Spotlighting businesses in Boulder and Broomfield counties

    Business: CMIT Solutions of Boulder East-Broomfield

    Number of Employees: Four

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  • Friday, November 20, 2009

    Cyberstalking isn't just for criminals. A local company that provides computer services recently used technology to send police to knock on the door of someone using a computer that had been stolen from a Folsom insurance office.  The information provided by CMIT Solutions of Sacramento led to an arrest and the recovery of a computer taken May 31 from Prowest Insurance Services Inc.

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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009

    Rich Szymanski admitted his decision to take his career in a new direction probably couldn't have happened at a worse time, coming as it did 18 months ago with the economy tanking and clients suspending plans for software upgrades.

    But now, having chosen the franchise business route, he's broadened his knowledge of the constantly changing information technology field and sports a growing base of clients in need of technical support and advice.

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  • Friday, September 25, 2009

    A new book seeks to simplify technological concepts that often overwhelm business owners. A group of experts from CMIT Solutions offices nationwide contributed to a new book, "I Just Want My Computers to Work," (CMIT Solutions, 111 pages; complimentary copies are available by emailing dbush(at)cmitsolutions.com) CMIT Solutions is an information technology franchise that provides services to small and midsize businesses.

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  • Sunday, September 20, 2009

    It's a small-business owner's worst nightmare - computer failure, loss of data, anything that makes the business stop or shut down. In the case of Scott Peck, from Escondido CPA firm Dunlap, Dunlap and Peck, it was a well-meaning intern who accidentally deleted the company's 5,000-person contact list.

    "Luckily, when I heard about it, I just laughed," Peck said.

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  • Friday, September 11, 2009

    Scott Graflund, 42, spent 22 years at Morgan Stanley as a resource management specialist, helping find the right technology solutions for the wealth management business. He also headed up an investment group at Morgan that invested in tech. In November 2007, he worked out a buyout package and left Morgan Stanley.

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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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The cloud is indispensable but still prone to outages — and MSPs can reduce the risk

We all know cloud computing is here to stay. It’s too easy to maintain, too flexible and too cheap to not use — especially if you’re a small business owner with data storage needs and functions that strain your average on-site server.

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Your LinkedIn account could be compromised.

Passwords for many users of business-networking website LinkedIn were among a list of 6.5 million stolen passwords published today on a Russian website.

LinkedIn confirmed the publication on the company's...

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Our local owners on Long Island are preparing to wow as many as 4,500 business leaders this week at the island’s biggest trade show. The occasion is the HIA-LI (formerly the Hauppauge Industrial Association) 24th Annual Business Trade Show and Conference. The centerpiece of the group’s display is CMIT Impression, our visual collaboration offering that incorporates a spectacular 55-inch,...
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Beth Burnside and team turn technology tar pit into a smoothly running machine

LuAnn Gossett used to consider computers a necessary evil.

As administrative assistant for the Mental Health Association of Northwestern PA, Gossett spent about 30% of her time troubleshooting computer problems in the 40-person office.

Email would be out. Computers wouldn’t work. Service...
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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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