BackWeb Hosts Portal Webinar with IBM WebSphere

Building and Maintaining Profitable Portals

San Jose, Calif. -- Feb. 19, 2002 -- BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), the leading provider of ProactivePortal™ technologies for the enterprise, today announced that it will host an interactive Webinar with IBM. The February 21st Webinar, led by IBM Vice President of Portal Solutions, Larry Bowden and BackWeb COO, Gwen Spertell, will allow participants to learn first hand how to leverage their portal investments to increase productivity even while budgets shrink.

The interactive forum will specifically address:

- The Business & IT Benefits of Enterprise Portals
- Building a Portal the Supports the Extended Enterprise
- Providing Access for Disconnected Users
- Ensuring Portal Usage
- Q&A

"It has become evident that portals can add tremendous value to the enterprise," said Gwen Spertell, COO, BackWeb Technologies. "However, like any other IT project, portal deployments can fail due to lack of high level support in the first phase of deployment. A portal project is only truly successful when it is viewed by its key stakeholders as a place where work gets done, rather than an incidental tool which people use occasionally. This is achieved when the most critical portal content is used by the most critical people. The challenge is that the most critical people, those who contribute to the bottom line, are the often the busiest and working in disconnected environments."

The Webinar is being held on Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 AM PST and 10 AM PST. To register for the free web-based event, please go to www.backweb.com/profitableportals. If you have any problems registering, or if you have questions regarding the upcoming event, please contact the BackWeb Programs Department at programs@backweb.com or (408) 933-1758.