Miami-Dade County Selects Datastream 7i to Automate Management of Facilities, Vehicle Fleets, and Infrastructure

Miami-Dade Expects Significant Cost Savings by Using Datastream 7i to Improve Efficiency for 10,000 Vehicles and 15 Water and Sewer Facilities across a 2,000 Square Mile Infrastructure

Greenville, S.C. - July 28, 2004 – Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) today announced that Miami-Dade County is deploying the Datastream 7i™ Asset Performance Management solution to automate the management of facilities, fleets and infrastructure across 2,000 square miles in Southern Florida. Miami-Dade County is the largest county in Florida and the eighth largest county in the United States.

In one of the most extensive government implementations of a Web-architected Asset Performance Management solution to date, Miami-Dade chose Datastream 7i because it was well-positioned to deliver the broad functionality required to manage the county’s enormously diverse range of capital assets with a single deployment. Datastream 7i also provides robust data management, analytics and reporting capabilities that enable Miami-Dade to gain unprecedented visibility across all of its departments and operations.  This allows employees to make better-informed decisions that improve efficiency, reduce costs and maximize asset availability.

A diverse mix of departments will participate in the initial phase of the project, using the new capabilities afforded by Datastream 7i to optimize management of the county’s infrastructure:

• General Services Administration (GSA), which provides support services to all of the county’s facilities and infrastructure, will use Datastream 7i to manage facilities and fixed assets, and the county’s fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles.
  
  
• Miami-Dade Transit will use Datastream 7i to manage all assets associated with the county’s mass transportation infrastructure, including Metrobus fleet, Metrorail train system and Metromover, a 4.4-mile elevated “people mover” in downtown Miami.
  
  
• The Water & Sewer Department will use Datastream 7i to more effectively maintain the largest water utility in the Southeastern United States, which includes three regional water treatment plants, five auxiliary treatment facilities, seven remote finished water storage and pumping facilities, wastewater treatment facilities and thousands of miles of pipelines.
  
  
• Park & Recreation will manage work orders, fleet management and maintenance associated with more than 500 parks and recreation areas.

One of the biggest benefits of the new system will be the ability to introduce preventive and predictive maintenance across thousands of pieces of equipment distributed throughout the county. “It will fundamentally change the way in which we perform maintenance,” says Assistant County Manager Corinne Brody. “The system will alert us when a piece of machinery is about to fail so we can do something about it, rather than us being in reactive mode repairing broken-down equipment. This will enable us to deploy our resources more efficiently, boost equipment uptime and maximize the impact of taxpayer dollars.”

The comprehensive reporting capabilities of Datastream 7i will enable the county to automate and facilitate regulatory compliance processes. “This is a major driver behind our deployment,” cites John Meyer, CIO Program Manager. “We need a system that will centralize all of our operational data and provide the statutory reporting required to comply with federal regulations.”

“Datastream 7i delivers the functionality, flexibility and scalability required for complex county government structures, such as Miami-Dade, to consolidate operations under a single application and centralize its operational data,” states Datastream President and CEO Larry Blackwell. “This enables large, county-wide operations to gain new insights into operations and permits informed business decisions that improve resource utilization and asset availability, reducing operating costs and, ultimately, delivering improved services to citizens.”

Datastream provides Web-based Asset Performance Management expertise to other organizations in the public sector such as the City of Bloomington, City of Greensboro, City of Philadelphia, City of San Jose, Michigan State Police and many more.

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™, 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 http://www.datastream.net/.





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