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BackWeb Announces Joint Solution to Extend BEA Applications to Mobile Workers BackWeb Increases Value of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Applications Running on the WebLogic Platform BEA eWorld, SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BackWeb Technologies Ltd. today announced a solution that is designed to help BEA customers more easily and cost-effectively mobilize, or offline enable, any BEA Web application for mobile laptop users with intermittent network connectivity. Announced at BEA's eWorld Conference in San Francisco, the joint solution aims to help sales and field service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings and process acceleration gains from employees using BEA Web applications while disconnected from the network. Customers utilize BackWeb(R) Offline Access Server(TM) technology to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and Web applications for increased field sales and field service productivity. To date, BackWeb and BEA have worked with joint customers and have demonstrated the strength of their combined solution with a range of companies, including one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, which is providing thousands of mobile sales representatives uninterrupted availability of content contained in their portal which is based on BEA and Documentum technology, as well as a multi- billion dollar healthcare company that is giving their field sales representatives access to critical content such as contacts, leads, and opportunities while disconnected from the network. BackWeb will integrate its BackWeb Offline Access Server technology with WebLogic Workshop to allow developers to simultaneously create applications that work both online and offline and help obtain the highest possible return from investments in Web applications built with BEA Workshop. BEA WebLogic Workshop is designed to enable developers to rapidly create, test and deploy service-oriented, enterprise-class applications and Web services on the BEA WebLogic platform. "This announcement builds on our success jointly selling with BEA in the marketplace and makes it possible for BEA customers to mobilize their applications for offline use," said Erez Lorber, CEO of BackWeb. "By integrating the BackWeb Offline Access Server with the BEA Portal and the WebLogic Workshop, we allow companies to make applications even more useful to employees in the field where mobility is their key to success." To see a demonstration of the joint solution, visit BackWeb at booth #530 at BEA eWorld. 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(R) 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 Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.backweb.com/ or call 800-863-0100. NOTE: BackWeb and Polite are registered trademarks and Offline Access Server is a trademark of BackWeb Technologies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. 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 the Company's product to enable BEA customers to more easily mobilize or offline enable any BEA Web application for mobile laptop users with intermittent network connectivity, the ability of the Company's products to enable sales and field organizations to realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains from employees using BEA applications while disconnected from the network, the integration of the Company's technology with WebLogic Workshop will allow developers to simultaneously create applications that work both online and offline and help obtain the highest possible return from investments in Web applications built with BEA Workshop, and the integration of the Company's products with BEA Portal and WebLogic Workshop will allow companies to make applications more useful to employees in the field. 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. Media Contacts: Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton Julie Martin LaunchSquad (for BackWeb) BackWeb Technologies 415-625-8555 408-933-1715 DATASOURCE: BackWeb Technologies Ltd. CONTACT: Julie Martin of BackWeb Technologies, +1-408-933-1715, or ; or Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton of LaunchSquad, +1-415-625-8555, or , for BackWeb Web site: http://www.backweb.com/

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