BackWeb Deployed by Canada's Largest National Wireless Communications Company - Rogers Communications Inc.

Rogers Communications Deploys BackWeb's Internet Communications Platform to Deliver Business-Critical Information to Employees

SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 21, 1999 - BackWeb™ Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Internet communication infrastructure and applications for the extended enterprise, today announced that Toronto-based Rogers Communications Inc. is now deploying its Internet communications platform to deliver business-critical information to its employees. Rogers is Canada's largest national wireless communications service provider, as well as the largest cable television service provider. Rogers is also one of the first large corporations in Canada to use the BackWeb technology.

"We found that sending critical information using traditional tools, including newsletters and e-mail messages, was not an effective way to communicate with our employees," said Ronan McGrath, President of Rogers Shared Services. "With BackWeb, we're now able to get the critical information through to our employees by delivering it proactively and in a way that captures their attention. This gives them the information they need to do their jobs, and also gives Rogers a competitive advantage by allowing us to adapt to change faster."

BackWeb enables the company to proactively deliver time-sensitive, business-critical information, such as announcements on company acquisitions and videos on new products and services, to its employees in a way that captures their attention. With BackWeb, Rogers creates high-impact, multimedia Flashes that pop up on the employees' screens, regardless of the application they are using. These Flashes alert the employee that there is critical information waiting for them. They simply click on the Flash to get the full story, video or presentation. The company also has the ability to dictate the urgency and level of priority of the Flashes, as well target and track the recipients. For files of any size, the information is sent when the network is idle so it doesn't interfere with other networked applications or performance.

"Under the leadership of Ted Rogers, Rogers continues to be on the cutting-edge of communications technology," said Eli Barkat, CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "By using a proactive communications delivery system, such as BackWeb, Rogers is not only improving and enhancing the knowledge of its employees, but it's also gaining significant return on investment by being able to respond and adapt to change faster."

The implementation of the BackWeb Internet communications platform is a part of a widespread desktop initiative in which Rogers is upgrading and Web-enabling its existing software and information delivery systems. BackWeb was selected after an extensive review of Internet communications platforms, currently offered by several companies in North America.

About Rogers Communications Inc.
Rogers Communications Inc. is Canada's national communications company engaged in cellular and Digital PCS communications through its 81% owned subsidiary Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., in cable television, high-speed Internet access and video retailing through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rogers Cablesystems Limited, and in radio and television broadcasting, publishing and new media businesses through its wholly owned subsidiary Rogers Media Inc.

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.