BackWeb´s Internet Communication Applications to Play a Key Role in Deloitte Consulting´s e-Business Practice

SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 30, 1999 - BackWeb® Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), a leading provider of Priority Internet communication infrastructure and applications software for the extended enterprise, and Deloitte Consulting, one of the world's top management consulting firms, today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to offer Internet communications applications consulting to Global 1,000 customers. BackWeb's Internet communications applications — specifically the BackWeb Sales Accelerator — will play a key role in Deloitte Consulting's e-Business practice.

"In today's dynamic marketplace, Global 1,000 companies face the challenge of communicating time-sensitive, business-critical information to the sales force, partners and customers," said Mike Sinoway, principal with Deloitte Consulting's Customer Relationship Management practice. "Through this practice, Deloitte Consulting and BackWeb will enable customers to quickly alert and adapt to change across the entire value chain."

The BackWeb Sales Accelerator suite is built on the BackWeb Foundation, and is a strategic enterprise application that leverages the power of the Internet to drive business-critical information into the hands of the decision makers in the value chain. BackWeb has the ability to deliver files of any size from almost any data source in the immediate and extended value chain, without impacting network bandwidth. BackWeb also provides sophisticated attention management tools to customers looking for the most significant returns available from their knowledge management efforts.

The BackWeb Sales Accelerator will also be installed in Deloitte Consulting's global network of Solution Centers. These centers provide a forum for clients to simulate business situations across multiple industries, helping them find solutions to better reach their customers and enhance their revenue growth.

"Deloitte Consulting has an impressive level of investment, experience and talented resources dedicated to Front Office, Internet commerce and e-Business," said Eli Barkat, CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "We believe that our combined solutions will help multi-national clients quickly adapt to critical change through better communication to their sales force, partners and customers."

About Deloitte Consulting
Deloitte Consulting is one of the world's top management consulting firms, providing services to transform your entire enterprise -- your strategy, processes, information technology, and people.

Deloitte Consulting offers its clients a very different approach, because of a highlyrespectful, flexible, and collaborative working style that allows an unmatched ability to transfer knowledge and skills and generate employee buy-in. In addition, Deloitte Consulting focuses on the realization that changing business processes is necessary to achieve the promised returns from strategy and technology. This approach enables the delivery of very different results – results clients can build on because Deloitte Consulting helps make organizations more robust and adaptable to future shifts in the environment.

Deloitte Consulting is an integral part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services firms, delivering world-class assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services. More than 82,000 people in over 130 countries serve nearly one-fifth of the world's largest companies as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful fast-growing companies. Our internationally experienced professionals deliver seamless, consistent services wherever our clients operate. Our mission is to help our clients and our people excel. For more information, visit the Deloitte Consulting web site at www.dc.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.