Bradco Supply Deploys Datastream 7i Across Multiple Locations to Create Innovative EAM Network.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

National Roofing and Building Materials Distributor

Uses Leading Enterprise Asset Management Solution

to Automate Third-Party Fleet Maintenance

Datastream Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: DSTM), today announced that Bradco Supply Corporation, a national distributor of roofing and building materials, is initially deploying the Datastream 7i(TM) Web-architected enterprise asset management (EAM) solution across three of its nationwide locations and several third-party partner sites. Additionally, the company says it expects to deploy Datastream 7i across all of its 101 locations over the next 12 to 18 months.

Bradco Supply will use Datastream 7i and the built-in functionality codes of Vehicle Maintenance Reporting System (VMRS(TM)) across the enterprise to manage its fleet of 1,400 trucks, tractors, trailers and forklifts. The company outsources nearly all of its fleet maintenance and repair operations to third-party vendors. Bradco Supply will automate the process of issuing and tracking work orders and invoices by including these vendors in an innovative Datastream 7i-based EAM network. This means that work orders will be issued faster and repairs can be made more quickly, keeping more trucks on the road.

Bradco Supply says its EAM network will reduce operating costs and improve the overall reliability of its fleet as managers use Datastream 7i to view, manage, schedule and enforce proper preventive maintenance routines. It will also reduce the opportunity for human error in maintenance and repair operations. "We are able to automate the entire work-order process by using Datastream 7i," said Kevin Tremmel, fleet manager of Bradco Supply. "This will eliminate an enormous amount of paperwork for us, because all of the work orders will be sent electronically over the Internet. More importantly, we will be able to automatically and accurately track the maintenance and performance of Bradco's vehicles. This enables us to efficiently determine exactly when vehicles need repair, eliminating unnecessary maintenance and the costs associated with it."

Bradco Supply is deploying Datastream 7i as a hosted solution, meaning that Bradco can significantly reduce personnel costs associated with installing, administering and maintaining the application. Datastream 7i's Web architecture makes it relatively easy for Bradco Supply to create an EAM network, because only a Web browser and an Internet connection is needed to access the application.

"Bradco Supply's innovative deployment shows how Datastream 7i's Web architecture can improve business processes by encompassing multiple locations under a single application," said Larry Blackwell, president and CEO of Datastream Systems. "The ability to automate internal processes across the EAM network can deliver significant bottom line benefits to companies adopting a 'virtual enterprise.'"

About Datastream Systems, Inc.

Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) provides enterprise asset management (EAM) software, automated procurement and supporting services to organizations worldwide, including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500. Customers rely on Datastream's products and services to drive down operating costs and improve productivity through better management of capital assets.

Datastream's flagship product, Datastream 7i, was the first product in its class to combine an Internet architecture with broad EAM functionality. Datastream 7i integrates with the company's iProcure industrial procurement network to provide customers with a complete EAM solution that maximizes return on investment in capital assets, while minimizing the total cost of application ownership. Datastream was founded in 1986 and has customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit www.datastream.net.

Datastream, Datastream 7i and iProcure are marks of Datastream Systems, Inc. or its subsidiaries. VMRS is a trademark of The Maintenance Council, American Trucking Associations, Inc. All other products or Company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: increasing competition in the markets in which the Company competes; the stability of certain of the Company's strategic relationships, including those with suppliers of maintenance, repair and operations parts; the ability of the Company to: sell larger and more complex software solutions, successfully transition to the development of further Internet-based products, successfully implement an application service provider business model, enhance its current products and develop new products that address technological and market developments; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including, but not limited to the "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001. The Company does not have, and expressly disclaims, any obligation to release publicly any updates or any changes in the Company's expectations or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based.