Dow Jones & Company Chooses Datastream 7i for Improved Asset Performance in Multiple Production Facilities.

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GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003

Worldwide Publisher of Business News and Information

Including The Wall Street Journal Deploys

Datastream 7i across 18 Locations in the United States 

Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) today announced that Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) is in the process of configuring and installing the Datastream 7i Web-architected enterprise asset management (EAM) solution. Dow Jones is using Datastream 7i(TM) to standardize maintenance and optimize the performance of capital assets across multiple production facilities located in the United States.

Dow Jones publishes the world's most vital business, financial and economic news, including The Wall Street Journal with paid circulation of more than 1.8 million, and Barron's, the premier financial weekly in the United States. The company is deploying Datastream 7i to help reduce plant downtime and increase operational efficiency.

"We will use Datastream 7i for a variety of reasons, first and foremost to improve and standardize the maintenance activities in our production sites," said Michael F. Sheehan, vice-president of production for The Wall Street Journal.

Dow Jones selected Datastream 7i for its ability to meet business requirements, history of deployment success and Web architecture. Its multi-site capabilities will facilitate the transfer of asset and maintenance information across the Dow Jones facilities, because all maintenance employees will be working from the same central database. Datastream 7i allows for the use of key performance indicators (KPIs), presented as simple HTML graphics via Web services technology, providing executives with at-a-glance information on operational performance.

Datastream 7i's multi-site deployment capability also enables cross-facility inventory optimization. For example, if one site is short on parts, user's can check to see if the part is available from another location before submitting a rush order with a vendor.

"Publishers such as Dow Jones & Company have some of the most demanding uptime requirements of any industry; there is absolutely no room for delay when producing time-sensitive publications such as The Wall Street Journal," said Larry Blackwell, president and CEO of Datastream. "With Datastream 7i, companies can standardize their processes across the enterprise, improve asset performance and minimize the expense of downtime."

About Datastream Systems, Inc.

Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) provides Asset Performance Management software and services to enterprises worldwide, including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500. Datastream's solutions combine world-class asset management functionality with advanced analytics to deliver a powerful platform for optimizing enterprise asset performance.

By using Datastream's solutions, customers can maintain and manage capital assets - such as manufacturing equipment, vehicle fleets and buildings - and create analyses and forecasts so they can take action to improve future performance. Datastream's flagship product, Datastream 7i, delivers a complete Asset Performance Management infrastructure by combining an Internet architecture with broad enterprise asset management functionality, integrated procurement, advanced analytics and multi-site capability.

Datastream was founded in 1986 and has customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.datastream.net.

About Dow Jones & Company

In addition to publishing The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions and Barron's, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) publishes Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC of CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

Datastream and Datastream 7i are marks of Datastream Systems, Inc. or its subsidiaries. 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, 2002. 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.