BackWeb Technologies Announces Key Executive Appointments

SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 22, 1999 - BackWeb™ Technologies, a leading provider of Internet communication infrastructure and applications for the extended enterprise, today announced it has appointed two key executives, Hanan Miron, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Carla Stratfold, Vice President of Strategic Alliances.

"Hanan Miron's financial, business and general management background and Carla Stratfold's high-tech expertise and strategic partnership skills further strengthen the BackWeb executive management team," said Eli Barkat, BackWeb Technologies' CEO. "Both Miron and Stratfold will assist in the rapid growth of the company, as well as play key roles in building strategic partnerships and customer accounts."

As Chief Financial Officer, Hanan Miron brings to BackWeb nearly 20 years of expertise in finance, law and operations. Prior to joining the company, he held consecutive positions as Vice President & CFO of NICE Systems Ltd., and President of NICE Systems North American Operations. NICE Systems is a leading global provider of Computer Telephony Integrated (CTI) logging, quality measurement and workflow solutions for voice, fax and data. Miron holds a LLB degree from the Law School of the Hebrew University and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration of Dartmouth College.

As BackWeb Technologies' new Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Stratfold brings more than 15 years of high-tech industry expertise to the company. Prior to joining BackWeb, she spent ten years at Oracle Corporation where she was most recently Vice President of Product Sales and Marketing for the United States, Canada, Latin America and Brazil. During her tenure at Oracle, her organization was responsible for developing the sales strategies for 145 products, including the Oracle Server and Development Tools, Manufacturing, Financials and Sales Force Automation applications. Stratfold also worked for Applied Data Research in the Systems Products division, Nordstrom and SuperValu. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Washington State University.

The additions complement the current BackWeb executive team, which includes Eli Barkat, CEO; Gwen Spertel, Senior Vice President; Roni Or, Vice President of Product Development; Doug Roseborough, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing; Pat Wynne, Vice President of North American Sales; and Jean Francois Guyomar, Managing Director of European Operations.

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.