BackWeb and IBM Deliver Joint Keynote Presentation at DCI Portal Conference

Portal ROI: Lessons Learned about Portal Adoption and Usage

SAN JOSE, CA.- July 10, 2002 -BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), the leading provider of ProactivePortal™ technologies for the enterprise, today announced that Eli Barkat, its Chairman and CEO will be presenting a keynote address with Larry Bowden, IBM Vice President of Portal Solution Software, at DCI's Corporate and e-Business Portals Conference in Boston on July 16, 2002.

Portals today must address the needs of ‘critical to the business' users. Often these are mobile users such as customer facing managers, sales representatives and field service personnel who cannot access the online portal when they need it. Larry Bowden, an IBM veteran of more than 20 years, and Eli Barkat will discuss the needs of the disconnected user and how a phased approach to portal implementation and providing offline access can improve a portal project's chance of success. The session "Portal ROI: Lessons Learned about Portal Adoption and Usage" will take place on Tuesday, July 16 at 10:00 a.m. (ET) at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston.

BackWeb Technologies recently announced a reseller agreement with IBM, whereby the BackWeb® ProactivePortal Server is included on the IBM pricelist. BackWeb ProactivePortal technology adds offline and online portal solutions for the IBM WebSphere Portal by allowing users to remotely access key content, to subscribe to critical content for offline and online viewing and alerts for newly published critical content and to ensure interaction with content via a closed-loop delivery system.

For further information on the DCI conference and the BackWeb Technologies presentation on July 16, please refer to the website http://www.dci.com/brochure/porbos. For more information on BackWeb Technologies or to schedule a meeting with Larry Bowden and Eli Barkat at the conference, contact Liz Hammonds at 408-933-1786.