BLG Technologies is a Chicago-area integrator. We design, install and manage the systems businesses actually run on — and because we do all of it, the parts are built to work together rather than merely coexist.
Most shops do one of these and subcontract the rest. Doing all five ourselves is what removes the gap between them — the gap being where projects usually go wrong.
Including saying when something is not worth doing. A project that saves ten minutes a month is not a project, and we would rather say so than invoice for it.
The cabling, the network, the AV, the cameras and the software are one system. Nobody gets to point at another vendor when the thing you actually bought does not work end to end.
Runs tested, racks labelled, platforms chosen because they are supportable rather than because they were cheapest that week. The difference shows up two years later.
Managed IT and monitoring continue after the install. An integrator who disappears at handover is selling you a project; we would rather run the thing.
The cabling side is licensed work, and it is worth confirming of anyone you hire for it. We hold it, and the same crew that runs the cable installs what sits on top of it.
Both stacks, properly — not one grudgingly. Which you should run depends on your business, not on which one we would rather administer.
We stay current on the platforms we install, so your systems stay supportable for years rather than only on the day they go in.
Local. Most things are solved remotely, but when a job needs hands on it, someone drives out rather than dialling in.
Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Remote support reaches managed machines anywhere; the cabling, AV and camera work is on-site, which is why the service area is a real boundary rather than a marketing one.
A new buildout, a network that keeps dropping, an AV system, cameras, or AI you've been meaning to figure out. We'll scope it honestly.
