BackWeb Co-Hosts Portal Web Seminar with Plumtree Software

Get Up & Go: Offline Enabling the Plumtree Portal for Mobile & Remote Users

San Jose, Calif. -- Jan. 23, 2002 - BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), the leading provider of ProactivePortal™ technologies for the enterprise, today announced that it will co-host an interactive Web seminar with leading portal framework provider, Plumtree. The January 24th Web seminar, led by Plumtree co-founder Joe McVeigh and BackWeb Vice President of Marketing, Bob Braham, will discuss the importance of offline portals and how to take corporate portals to offline and mobile users.

The Delphi Group reports that up to 50% of critical portal users, ranging from sales and line-of-business managers to executives, require offline capabilities to their portal. Through its ProactivePortal technology, BackWeb will provide offline access to Plumtree portal gadgets, thereby ensuring that the end-user has uninterrupted portal access, online as well as offline, enabling enterprises to react quickly, make better decisions and collaborate to increase business speed and efficiency.

The interactive Web seminar will discuss:

Benefits & Challenges of Enterprise Portals
Increasing Portal Usage with Offline Access
Increasing and Reporting Portal Usage
Demonstration of offline enabled Plumtree gadgets
Q&A

"The value portals bring to enterprises is strongly evidenced by the recent surge in portal investments," said Bob Braham, vice president of marketing, BackWeb Technologies."Offline access to portal content is becoming increasingly critical to an organization's overall portal technology. We look forward to discussing how offline enabled Plumtree portals will allow customers to gain maximum value from their portal implementations."

The Web seminar is being held on Thursday, January 24 at 8:00 AM PST. To register please go to www.backweb.com/offlineportals or call 408-933-1758.