LAWRENCE, KS, September 24, 2002 --DataTeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of fund accounting software for education and local governments, announces two new tools designed to make data sharing easier -- DataBridge and ImportWizard.

"The two products have some similarities but are designed for different purposes," Roger Haack, DataTeam President and CEO, said. "DataBridge is designed primarily to share information between our products, such as Fund Accounting² (FA²) and Human Resources² (HR²), and software from other companies that cooperate with DataTeam. ImportWizard is used for occasional data transfers."

"One use of ImportWizard we expect to see is integration of our Cafeteria Management software and other vendors' student information management systems, such as those offered by HighTouch and Chancery Student Management Solutions," software developer George Asante said.

ImportWizard has much of the same functionality of DataBridge but is designed to be an easy end- user tool for ad-hoc data import.

"It has always been one of our goals to be as compatible as possible with other applications," Haack. said. "DataTeam Systems, Inc., was an early supporter of the School Interoperability Format (SIF), but we decided to pull out when it looked to us that the SIF solution was going to be too expensive for most medium and small districts. These products allow us to exchange data with most major applications including SIF-based solutions."

DataBridge will be released to DataTeam users in fourth quarter 2002, and ImportWizard will follow in the first quarter of 2003.

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