BackWeb Technologies and SAP AG to Collaborate on mySAP.com™

NICE, France - May 3, 1999 - Today at SAPPHIRE®'99 Nice, the SAP European user conference, SAP AG (NYSE ADR: SAP), the world's leading provider of enterprise business solutions, and BackWeb® Technologies, Inc., a leader in Internet communication infrastructure and applications for the extended enterprise, announced an agreement to leverage the BackWeb Internet communications platform throughout the mySAP.com™ offering. mySAP.com is the Internet business strategy that creates collaborative markets and facilitates dynamic business relationships.

"BackWeb's leading Internet communication infrastructure enables the priority delivery of time-sensitive, business critical information to the virtual enterprise or a selected portal," said Peter Zencke, member of the board of directors, SAP AG. "BackWeb's ability to deliver large files of any size without impacting network bandwidth, and its high-priority, high-impact attention management tools will provide ongoing benefits to our customers."

BackWeb's Internet communications platform enables companies to publish, deliver and alert end users to critical information in a timely manner. Its Market Intelligence Manager uses BackWeb's Polite™ technology to deliver critical market information directly to the desktop without impacting network performance. Its Priority Delivery Service helps global companies stay connected to each other and accelerates their ability to respond and adapt to change. This can also result in an accelerated time to market. BackWeb's Strategic Publishing Manager enables companies to publish files of any size or type, including rich multimedia, to the end user — whether it's a closed-loop group, the extended enterprise or a portal.

"SAP clearly understands the communications power and value of the Internet and as a result, chose a solid communications infrastructure, BackWeb, to play a role in its mySAP.com Internet business strategy," said Eli Barkat, CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "We believe BackWeb's ability to leverage the Internet and support the virtual enterprise is unmatched in the industry today. We are pleased to be working with SAP in this role."

About SAP
SAP, the world's largest enterprise software company, provides companies of all sizes with business solutions that deliver A Better Return on InformationSM. SAP products and services integrate an organization from financials and human resources to manufacturing and sales and distribution. This integration enables companies to optimize supply chains, strengthen customer relationships, and make more accurate management decisions. Founded in 1972, SAP today leverages a global network of people, processes and products to assure customer success. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at www.sap.com.

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.