BackWeb´s Polite Push Infrastructure Selected for KPMG Consulting´s eWorkforce Solution

As Part of eWorkforce Alliance, BackWeb to Power Proactive HR Portals

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 19, 2000 — BackWeb® Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB) a leading provider of push for e-business solutions, and KPMG Consulting, Inc., a leading provider of Internet integration services, today announced that BackWeb's patented Polite™ push technology is a core component of KPMG Consulting's eWorkforce Solution. In collaboration with KPMG and Cisco Systems, BackWeb is joining with three other industry leaders as part of a Strategic Alliance to create a solution that enables companies to empower their employees through proactive enterprise information delivery. EWorkforce will be sold and deployed through KPMG's World-Class Human Resources practice. As part of the alliance, KPMG and BackWeb also will pursue joint sales opportunities for the eWorkforce Solution.

BackWeb's Polite push technology adds bandwidth-efficient Web delivery to several components within eWorkforce. This ability saves time for employees who historically have searched for needed information and offers executives an easy, powerful method to strategically communicate with their global workforce. eWorkforce — which also incorporates technology from DataChannel, Oblix and Interlynx Technologies — gives employees access to self-service applications for communications, administration, management and learning. KPMG Consulting provides the integration and professional services required to implement the eWorkforce Solution.

"The eWorkforce Strategic Alliance will deliver the Web-based solution that market leaders have sought to reduce administrative costs, improve employee productivity, and support business growth across geographical and functional boundaries," said Ray Zaso, managing director for KMPG Consulting's World-Class Human Resources Solutions. "BackWeb proactively delivers HR content directly to the desktop. This rapid communication and delivery component will provide accurate, timely information to the employee, and in turn will benefit the enterprise."

The BackWeb Advantage for eWorkforce
BackWeb delivers the Polite push advantage to four core components of eWorkforce:

Employee HR Portal. With BackWeb, customers can create proactive HR portals that automatically send customized information and services to their employees.
Entitlements and Access Privileges. With BackWeb, companies can target content toward specific groups or individuals. In addition, BackWeb's closed-loop reporting capabilities allow companies to track how users receive and interact with critical content.
Content Aggregation. BackWeb enables automated, proactive delivery of content from a company's HR portal or anywhere in the enterprise where data is stored and distributed. This allows eWorkforce customers to efficiently leverage existing information.
Content Delivery. Because BackWeb uses only idle network bandwidth, employees automatically receive even media-rich content with no effect on the performance of other network applications such as email and browsing. As a result, companies hosting employee portals will be able to easily deliver audio and video files, slide presentations and other sophisticated multimedia content – even over a dial-up connection. BackWeb's attention management tools – including multimedia Flashes that automatically appear on the user's screen – instantly alert employees to the arrival of new or time-sensitive information.

"Our collaboration with KPMG Consulting and the other eWorkforce alliance members is an important step forward in our effort to create truly proactive portals powered by the Internet's de facto push infrastructure," said Eli Barkat, chairman and CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "Together we are transforming the notion of what a portal is, and heightening its value to the enterprise and to the employee."

Announced today by KPMG and Cisco Systems, the KPMG eWorkforce Solution is modeled after Cisco's own Workforce Optimization applications and KPMG Consulting's best practices. The KPMG eWorkforce Solution offers a role-based enterprise information portal, the integration of Web-based HR, payroll and benefits applications, proactive and automated delivery of content and applications, and the potential to deploy other best-of-breed business solutions. The eWorkforce Solution spans consulting through integration services and is deployed through KPMG's World-Class Human Resources practice.

About KPMG Consulting
KPMG Consulting LLC is a leading provider of Internet integration services. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.kpmgconsulting.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.