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CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North & Arlington Heights
CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North is the small business IT support and IT services company for Bannockburn, Glenview, Green Oaks, Half Day, Indian Creek, Lake Forest, Northbrook, and Wheeling.
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Jerry Karson
CMIT Solutions is a nationwide provider of information technology (IT) services and solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). With more than 800 consultants and technicians, CMIT has expertise in nearly all technologies and industries. Founded in 1996 in Austin, TX, CMIT Solutions, Inc. has grown into the leading IT solution provider for SMBs. With over 10 years of experience and strong industry partnerships, CMIT Solutions is capable of providing enterprise-level services and products that were previously unavailable to the SMB market. We are a local company with the support of a national network behind us. We focus on making your business run better by understanding your business and technology needs.
Based in Lake Forest, CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North provides IT services and solutions that growing businesses in northern Cook and eastern Lake Counties need: computer networks, network security, IT support, troubleshooting, data backup and recovery, IT consulting and more — all things necessary to ensure you have a productive and safe network. What really sets us apart are our managed services plans and our national Network Operations Center (NOC). For a fixed monthly fee, the CMIT Marathon managed services plan provides PROACTIVE maintenance, monitoring and technical support for your business’ technology infrastructure – including servers, PCs, laptops, networks, and printers. In addition, the CMIT Guardian service provides the best available business continuity solution for SMBs.
Chicagoland North Management Team
Jerry Karson, owner and President of CMIT’s franchise serving Chicago’s northern suburbs, has over 30 years experience in providing Information Technology services to companies ranging from Fortune 100 to middle market to small business and start-ups. Jerry directed a regional IT consulting practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand) and was also the CIO for a mid-sized professional services company. He has a proven track record in exceeding expectations, building value and creating differentiation for his clients. His significant expertise includes solving business problems, reducing operating costs and improving competitive advantage, revenue potential, and the timeliness and usefulness of information.
Jerry is a graduate of the NYU Stern School of Business. His CMIT exploits have been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and Wall Street Journal. Jerry is also the co-author of "I Just Want My Computers to Work!" A Business Owner's Guide to Technology Peace of Mind. Besides CMIT, Jerry’s passions are family, baseball, hockey and a good red wine.
At the 2009 CMIT Solutions convention, Jerry Karson proudly received the Momentum Award. This award recognizes a franchise partner who achieved sustained momentum over the previous year. Momentum is defined as not only revenue growth but also building a team, increasing managed services clients, and being recognized as a leader in the CMIT system.
We value the relationships we’ve built with our clients, who often regard us as a member of their own staff. Because we maintain a keen sense of business, we help our clients leverage technology to achieve their larger company objectives.
CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North can be reached at:
825 S. Waukegan Road A8
Lake Forest, IL 60045
(847) 855-4531
Fax: (847) 787-5232
CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North serves businesses in Glenview, Northbrook, Wheeling, Deerfield, Riverwoods, Bannockburn, Lincolnshire, Lake Forest, Vernon Hills, Mettawa, Libertyville, Green Oaks and the surrounding areas.
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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.
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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.
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"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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