BackWeb Announces Key Executive Appointment

Todd Johnson, former Senior Vice President of SGI, joins BackWeb as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing

SAN JOSE, California — August 9, 1999 — BackWeb® Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), a leading provider of Priority Internet communication software for the extended enterprise, today announced the recent appointment of Todd Johnson, formerly of SGI, to the position of Vice President, Worldwide Marketing.

As Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Johnson brings more than 17 years marketing experience to BackWeb Technologies. Prior to joining the Company, he was Senior Vice President, Server Solutions at SGI. He was responsible for the company's industry, enterprise software solutions, server, supercomputer and operating systems marketing. Prior to that he was responsible for the company's worldwide Marketing & Communications and Industry & Applications Marketing organizations. He also led the marketing efforts for the Silicon Graphics O2 visual workstation. Before joining SGI, Johnson spent seven years at Hewlett-Packard in a number of key marketing and operations positions.

"Todd Johnson is a key addition to BackWeb's already strong executive management team in that he brings nearly two decades of worldwide marketing experience and industry knowledge to the table," said Eli Barkat, Chairman and CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "We believe Todd's expertise will be instrumental to our success as BackWeb furthers its position as the leader in Priority Internet communications software."

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.