BackWeb Technologies and i7 Business Solutions Sign OEM Software License Agreement to Provide Internet Business Application Packages to Vertical Markets

SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 22, 1999 - BackWeb™ Technologies, a leading provider of Internet communication infrastructure and applications for the extended enterprise, today announced an OEM license agreement with i7 Business Solutions that enables i7 to integrate its component-based Internet application INTELLIinformation with BackWeb's Internet communications platform. This integration enables the delivery of time-sensitive, business-critical information from internal or external sources to targeted end users within a single application interface.

"The development of process-oriented business applications that leverage the power of the Internet has always been the strategic mission of i7 Business Solutions," said Marc Wehrum, Managing Director of i7. "Extending the application scope and offering value-added technologies and business scenarios to our customers has become the main driver for our success. By combining our INTELLIinformation application with the scalable and automated distribution solution of a leader, such as BackWeb, i7 has created a new dimension of Internet business applications for vertical markets."

The INTELLIinformation Solution package, with BackWeb's Internet communications platform, provides a state-of-the-art document management and delivery process for consulting companies and systems integrators. BackWeb's high-impact Flash technology will be used to deliver time-sensitive, project-critical information to the desktop of the user. The Flashes can contain any type of file or media, and are automatically delivered to a consultant or systems integrator's desktop, regardless of the application in use. The notifications can be set for minimum, medium or maximum priority depending on the urgency of the message.

In addition to the INTELLIinformation Solution package, i7 Business Solutions and BackWeb Technologies are currently working with several leading insurance companies in Europe to create an application designed specifically for the insurance industry.

About i7 Business Solutions
i7 Business Solutions, with headquarters in the technology center of Zweibruecken (Germany) and Marina del Rey, Ca. (US), is an innovative Internet application company that develops component based application modules for the support of corporate business processes in the areas of sales, service, marketing and internal management. For more information, visit its Web site at www.i7-business.com or call +49 6332 791900

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.