Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services Deploys Datastream 7i Across Multiple Locations to Optimize Maintenance Operations.

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Leading Provider of Health Services in Dubai Using Asset Performance Management Solution to Operate its Facilities at Maximum Efficiency

Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) today announced that the Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services (DOHMS) is deploying the Datastream 7i(TM) asset performance management solution across several locations to reduce operating costs and improve equipment availability.

DOHMS is operated by the government of Dubai and provides health-related services to more than one million people. DOHMS must maintain and manage more than 25,000 pieces of hospital equipment in multiple locations. The organization is currently using Datastream 7i to manage these assets, comply with regulatory standards, schedule and execute preventive and corrective maintenance and optimize its inventory of clinical equipment.

"We have thousands upon thousands of assets that we rely on to serve our patients," said Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, director general of DOHMS. "We evaluated several products, and Datastream 7i met our stringent requirements. It has superior management and auditing capabilities that will allow us to manage our assets while meeting our regulatory requirements."

DOHMS licensed Datastream 7i through Intertec Systems, the authorized alliance for Datastream in the United Arab Emirates. "The DOHMS contract is the outcome of Datastream and Intertec's commitment to ensure that all our solutions are based on a best practices approach to deliver a distinct edge to our customers in today's competitive and technology-driven business scenario," said Khalid Essa Bu Humaid, chairman of Intertec Systems.

"The Datastream 7i solution delivers value to DOHMS that extends beyond traditional asset management," said Larry Blackwell, president and CEO of Datastream. "For example, the use of key performance indicators provides DOHMS' decision-makers with the critical 'at a glance' business intelligence required to make more informed strategic decisions. And by using the Business Applications Integration Module, DOHMS has integrated Datastream 7i with Oracle Financials, which enables real-time analysis of operating costs and projected revenue. This ability to collect, analyze and share information is what enables Datastream 7i to serve as the engine behind a powerful Asset Performance Management strategy."

About Intertec Systems

Intertec Systems LLC is a leading information technology solutions company focused on empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology. Established in the UAE over 12 years ago, its operations today have also spread to India, with branches in Bangalore and Mumbai.

The Intertec product range is diverse and designed to optimize the business process specific to focus industries, including retail, the financial sector, real estate, tourism, aviation and cargo management. In addition the company has direct alliances with global companies like Compaq (now HP), Cisco, Datastream, Intel LANDesk, IBM, Liant, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, OpenText, Cosmocom, Computer Associates and Nordex.

About Datastream Systems, Inc.

Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) provides Asset Performance Management software and services to enterprises worldwide, including more than 65 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(TM), delivers a complete Asset Performance Management infrastructure by combining an Internet, web services 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.

Datastream and Datastream 7i are marks of Datastream Systems, Inc. ("Datastream" or the "Company"). 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 Datastream's SEC reports, including, but not limited to the "Risk Factors" contained in the Datastream's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003. Datastream 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.