Cable & Wireless to Offer BackWeb's Push for E-Business Solutions to Multinational Corporations

Cable& Wireless Extends its Intranet Solutions Portfolio to Meet Communication and Collaboration Requirements of Global Customers

SAN JOSE, Calif. — February 28, 2000 — BackWeb® Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), the leading provider of push for e-business solutions, today announced that Cable & Wireless (NYSE:CWP), the global telecommunications group, will offer BackWeb's popular push software to its top global accounts. With BackWeb Sales Accelerator, Cable & Wireless customers will be able to deliver essential, time-sensitive information and materials to employees and associates anywhere on their corporate networks.

With BackWeb's patented Polite™ push solutions, companies send information only when network bandwidth is available, so even large files have no impact on network and system performance. BackWeb's attention management tools instantly alert users to the arrival of time-sensitive information while interaction reporting confirms that employees and partners have received and acted upon the information.

"BackWeb technology is a vital addition to our global Intranet Solutions set," said David Sexton, CEO of Cable & Wireless Global Markets. "The ability of customers to automatically send targeted, business-critical information to employees and partners allows them to make the most of their Intranet operations. This truly enabling technology promises to have a significant and lasting impact for many of our largest global customers."

"Cable & Wireless has clearly demonstrated its ability for building world-class communications solutions based on leading e-business applications," said Eli Barkat, chairman and CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "We're pleased to work closely with Cable & Wireless in its efforts to bring BackWeb Sales Accelerator to its largest global accounts. This is another major step toward making BackWeb a de facto Internet standard."

BackWeb Sales Accelerator will be rolled out within Cable & Wireless' MNC (multinational corporates) channel in Q1 2000. Through the in-house deployment programme, Cable & Wireless employees will receive enhanced information about its global operations, its customers and its competition. As part of the reseller agreement, BackWeb will actively participate in sales efforts for large installations. The two companies also will pursue joint marketing and promotion activities.

With BackWeb's patented Polite™ push technology, global companies can deliver multimedia-rich digital packages of any size or format, including audio, video, graphics and HTML – all without impacting system or network performance. BackWeb's Polite Agent™ avoids disrupting the customer by using only available bandwidth and politely delivering the information in the background.

About Cable & Wireless
With customers in 70 countries, Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of around £8 billion (USD $12.5 billion) in the year ended March 1999 and over 50,000 employees. Its businesses around the world offer a range of services spanning broadband data and Internet services, fixed and mobile voice, as well as interactive entertainment and information. Cable & Wireless' priority for expansion is the fast growing market of data and IP (Internet Protocol) services for business customers. Since November 1998, it has announced major investments in advanced networks in the US and Europe, the restructuring of Cable & Wireless Communications in the UK and has acquired full control of Cable & Wireless IDC in Japan to support this strategy. Cable & Wireless now holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers.

About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading offline Web software company. BackWeb extends the value of technology investments by offering mobile and remote employees offline access to portals, intranets and other Web-based applications and content. The company's products reduce network costs and improve the productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce. At the core of BackWeb's products is its patented Polite® synchronization technology that can distribute large amounts of data even over narrow bandwidth connections. BackWeb® customers include market leaders such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Centocor, Eastman Kodak, GE Healthcare, Guidant, HP, KLA Tencor, Lam Research, Pfizer and more than one hundred other companies. BackWeb also has strategic reseller alliances with software industry leaders: Plumtree, SAP and IBM. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. For more information, visit www.backweb.com or call (800) 863-0100.

Statements in this news release, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities laws, including statements of beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, the ability of BackWeb software to allow customers to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and help increase field sales and field service productivity, the integration of BackWeb software with BEA products will help developers extend portal applications for offline use without changing the way they work, and the ability of the resulting applications to help field sales and service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains while disconnected from the network. Actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include unforeseen technological issues related to use of the BackWeb software, deployment issues related to implementation, unforeseen software errors, competitive factors and business and expense factors that may affect the perceived efficiencies from use of BackWeb's products, and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in BackWeb's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. BackWeb assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.