BackWeb™ Launches First Client for Microsoft® Outlook™, Upgrades Client for Internet Explorer™ 4.0

New Clients Merge Infocenter Content into Central Knowledge Reservoirs

San Jose, Calif., (July 14, 1998) -- BackWeb™ Technologies, the leader in knowledge distribution solutions, today announced two new client interfaces that empower the company's enterprise customers to distribute content and view BackWeb channels in Microsoft Outlook or Internet Explorer 4.0 browser. Enterprises using the new BackWeb Infocenter for Microsoft Outlook or the new BackWeb for Microsoft Internet Explorer can leverage their existing infrastructure and their employee's familiarity with these Microsoft products to immediately begin seeing the benefits of BackWeb's knowledge distribution.

"These new clients achieve two key goals for BackWeb," said Eli Barkat, BackWeb's chief executive officer. "First, we're providing our enterprise customers with added flexibility to design knowledge distribution systems that best achieve their unique enterprise objectives and second, we're providing our enterprise customers a roadmap to converging their enterprise knowledge into a single interface."

"Organizations want the ability to combine their enterprise knowledge into virtual knowledge centers/maps, since employees today 'live' in their Email and browser, BackWeb is providing a logical first steps toward that convergence," said Stan Lepeak, vice president AIMS, META Group.

The two new clients further BackWeb's multifaceted relationship with Microsoft, leveraging the familiar functionality and commands of Outlook and Internet Explorer and taking advantage of established employee work patterns to speed enterprise adoption and employee comfort with BackWeb.

"By integrating BackWeb content directly into Outlook, users can view and manage channel content that is delivered to them by the BackWeb server alongside their Outlook e-mail, schedule, contacts and task information," said Judy Lew, Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation. "Enterprise users can truly benefit from the addition of BackWeb's knowledge management capabilities to the comprehensive messaging and collaboration functionality of Outlook."

The latest version of BackWeb for Internet Explorer 4.0 gives enterprise customers added functionality of the BackWeb Infocenter. Enterprises using BackWeb for Microsoft Internet Explorer or the BackWeb Infocenter for Microsoft Outlook can reduce the number of active applications on the desktop and make it easy to access BackWeb information while checking Email, or browsing the Internet. Enterprise employees and business partners can subscribe to channels using simple drag and drop methods and receive BackWeb information in the same content views as the traditional BackWeb Infocenter Client, including flashes, tickers, newstitles and screensavers. Also consistent with the functionality of the traditional BackWeb Infocenter Client, users can effortlessly receive alerts, filter and search BackWeb information while in Outlook or Internet Explorer.

Pricing and Availability
BackWeb for Microsoft Internet Explorer and the BackWeb Infocenter for Microsoft Outlook are available now in beta from BackWeb Technologies. Enterprises purchasing the BackWeb Infocenter will receive these new clients at no extra charge.

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.