Case Study: Karen Hardy Dance Studios saves £3,700 annually and coaches students worldwide with Microsoft Teams

Karen Hardy Dance Studios - Customer Case Study

Karen Hardy Dance Studios, a small London-based professional dance studio, needed to coach students worldwide while protecting intellectual property, managing guest instructors, and meeting GDPR requirements. To solve device, data-protection, and remote-collaboration challenges the studio—with partner Nero Blanco IT—migrated to Microsoft Teams and the broader Microsoft 365 suite (OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Intune, and Skype for Business Online).

Using Microsoft Teams as the collaboration hub and Microsoft 365 services for cloud storage, device management, and rights protection, the vendor implemented managed-device policies, automatic OneDrive backups, and secure remote video coaching. The changes cut help-desk calls by 70%, removed third-party storage and calling fees, enabled real-time remote adjudication of dancers, and delivered about £3,700 in annual savings while strengthening GDPR readiness.

Karen Hardy Dance Studios

Karen Hardy

Director and Event Organizer