BackWeb Presents at Roth Capital Partners Growth Stock Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2002- BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB - news), the leading provider of ProactivePortal™ technologies for the enterprise, will present at the Roth Capital Partners Growth Stock Conference in Laguna Niguel, California on Wednesday, February 20, 2002.

BackWeb helps companies maximize their portal content investment by prioritizing, delivering and promoting the use of critical information to customers, suppliers, partners and employees across the enterprise. According to industry-leading analysts, the BackWeb® ProactivePortal Server™ provides three of the most critical components for next-generation portals: offline access, proactive notifications and closed-loop reporting. The analysts also predict that enterprise portal growth will be explosive over the next few years, becoming a $6 billion market by 2003.

BackWeb partners with leading companies worldwide to ensure that it can deliver the most comprehensive portal solutions for effective critical communications. The following leading framework providers and system integrator have selected BackWeb as their offline and proactive notification vendor of choice: IBM WebSphere Portals, SAP Portals, Plumtree and PriceWaterhouse Consulting. BackWeb's customers include Cisco, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson and IBM.

With BackWeb technology, companies can ensure that critical information is communicated and acted upon without delay -- one of today's most urgent business challenges. Complicating this challenge is the new ``attention economy'' -- an environment defined by huge volumes of information bombarding people and very little time to discern what is critical information and what is not. Companies need to ensure that the right people have the right information at the right time so they can make the right decisions -- for both daily operations and emergencies. BackWeb technology makes this happen by ensuring critical data flow through an automated system.

This means that the corporate portal is no longer passive. BackWeb products ensure the scalable and proactive delivery of portal content to stakeholders everywhere -- both online and offline. Interaction with content is assured, network performance is unaffected and files of any size and type can be delivered. BackWeb technology offers a closed-loop communications system for critical content with every customer, supplier, partner and employee. The end result is an efficient system for publishing content, delivering it, notifying the user of its existence and reporting the distribution/interaction results in a completely automated way.