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Leading Analyst Firm Lists BackWeb Technologies as a Selected Vendor for Offline Portals New Research Report Highlights Increasing Benefits of Offline Access in Enterprise Portal Deployments SAN JOSE, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BackWeb Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:BWEB) today announced that Gartner has recognized offline access as an increasingly important component of portal deployments and selected BackWeb as a vendor that delivers offline access to portals. The recognition of BackWeb as a selected vendor for offline portal access was part of Gartner's recently published "Hype Cycle for the Portal Ecosystem, 2004" report. In its segment on offline portals, the report discusses the importance of allowing portals to work in a disconnected mode while delivering the same personalization and user experience as when connected. Gartner has previously commented on offline support in a report entitled "Future Portal Clients Will Be Multichannel, Offline and Rich." The report states: "Offline support is a feature rarely found in portals. Unfortunately for mobile workers, the lack of offline support means they have to maintain traditional sources of information and applications for whenever they are disconnected from the network, and from their portal. Due to poor network availability and multiple standards around the world, many workers are frequently disconnected from their networks, and from their portals. The need for offline support is apparent." "The innovative companies that are covered in this report are among the market leaders in the enterprise portal industry," said Erez Lorber, CEO of BackWeb. "BackWeb offers a unique solution that is designed to extend the reach of corporate portals to mobile sales and field force employees with the goal of streamlining business activities, increasing revenues, and improving customer satisfaction. We are pleased that an influential research firm has recognized BackWeb as a premier vendor of offline solutions in the portal market." 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(R) 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. 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 customers to more easily mobilize or offline enable their applications for mobile laptop users with intermittent network connectivity, the ability of the Company's products to enable sales and field organizations to streamline their business activities, increase revenue, and increase customer satisfaction. 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. NOTE: BackWeb and Polite are registered trademarks of BackWeb Technologies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Media Contacts: Julie Martin BackWeb Technologies 408-933-1715 Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton LaunchSquad (for BackWeb) 415-625-8555 DATASOURCE: BackWeb Technologies Ltd. CONTACT: Julie Martin of BackWeb Technologies, +1-408-933-1715; or Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton, +1-415-625-8555, both of LaunchSquad, for BackWeb Technologies Web site: http://www.backweb.com/

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