BackWeb Signs Key Marketing, Product Development Executives

SAN JOSE, CALIF. (May 20, 1998) - In a move expected to further its lead in the enterprise knowledge distribution market, BackWeb Technologies announced today the addition of two key executives to head its marketing and product development teams.

Doug Roseborough joins BackWeb as vice president of Worldwide Marketing after eleven years at Oracle Corporation, while Roni Or, previously with Aurec Group, a leading communication media and information company in Israel, assumes the post of vice president of Product Development.

The new hires are critical to BackWeb's strategy of continuing to provide leading-edge knowledge distribution and automation solutions to the enterprise, while communicating the benefits of those solutions to a growing array of Global 1000 companies.

"We are thrilled to have Doug and Roni join our team," said Eli Barkat, BackWeb's chief executive officer. "A sophisticated market demands sophisticated leadership, and Doug and Roni share a level of expertise and innovative thinking consistent with what our enterprise customers seek."

About Doug Roseborough
Roseborough takes on BackWeb's worldwide marketing duties after most recently serving as Oracle's vice president of Americas marketing and operations, where he developed a solutions-oriented marketing strategy by integrating customer, sales force and product management perspectives. Additionally, Roseborough ensured the responsiveness of the Americas organization, and helped steer Oracle's business practices, events and programs, and sales automation efforts. Roseborough was also a key member of the International Oracle User Group Board, focused on customer involvement and service.

"This product captured my attention as one that I desperately needed to do my job more effectively. With more than 250 corporate BackWeb customers, clearly others agree the need is there. This is truly a product set designed with customers' requirements in mind" said Roseborough. "I'm eager to help evolve BackWeb's reputation as a customer-driven company. We are committed to providing the best leading edge solutions and the finest customer service in the industry."

His tenure at Oracle included sales, sales management, marketing, compensation, business practices and business development positions. Prior to that, Roseborough held computer sales positions in the healthcare industry and IBM Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Toronto, and a business degree in marketing and finance from the University of Windsor.

About Roni Or
As BackWeb's new vice president of Product Development, Roni Or assumes responsibility for all aspects of BackWeb's research and development, quality assurance, and product management. Or previously served as director for Online Services at Aurec Group, where he established a business unit dedicated to Internet services and electronic commerce.

"BackWeb and its products have consistently broken new ground and brought value to the enterprise," said Or, "and I'm excited to be a part of that leadership."

Before working at Aurec Group, Or was research and development director at Scitex Corporation, managing the development and marketing of all system-oriented products and technologies. While at Scitex, Or managed the development of the workstation product family that brought Scitex to the forefront of the graphic art market. Or has a Bachelor in Computer Science from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and an MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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.