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BackWeb Completes BEA Validation Program BackWeb's Offline Access Server Integrates with BEA WebLogic Platform to Extend Applications to Mobile Workers SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BackWeb Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:BWEB) today announced that BackWeb(R) Offline Access Server(TM) has completed the BEA Validation Program and is now verified to integrate with BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1. By completing this program, BackWeb can help assure customers that BackWeb Offline Access Server is designed to integrate with the industry's leading application infrastructure software from BEA Systems, Inc. Customers can utilize BackWeb Offline Access Server to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and Web applications to help increase field sales and field service productivity. To date, BackWeb and BEA have worked with a number of joint customers and have demonstrated the strength of their combined solution in a range of industries. Together, BackWeb and BEA can provide a thin-client solution that is designed to help developers extend portal applications for offline use without changing the way they work, while helping customers extend the use of Web applications built with the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1(TM). The resulting applications can help field sales and service organizations as they work to realize maximum productivity, cost savings and process acceleration gains from employees using BEA Web applications while disconnected from the network. "BEA's validation of Offline Access Server helps to underscore the strength and technical readiness of our solution for organizations that want to keep business moving and mobile employees productive by providing a solution designed to allow offline access to portals, intranets and Web applications," said Bill Heye, vice president of business development and product management at BackWeb. "By integrating the BackWeb Offline Access Server with the WebLogic Portal and the WebLogic Workshop, we can help companies make applications even more useful to employees in the field where mobility is their key to success." The BEA Validation Program provides a testing framework to verify the technical readiness of partner solutions that complement, operate with, or extend the BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1. Partners can validate the integration of their software applications and solutions with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 or test the interoperability of Java controls and integrated development environment (IDE) extensions with BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1. The BEA Validation Program is open to all partners enrolled in the BEA Partner Program. "BackWeb is an important partner of BEA, providing a solution that is designed to help BEA customers more easily and cost-effectively mobilize, or offline enable, BEA portals for mobile laptop users with occasional network connectivity. We're pleased that BackWeb is participating in the BEA Partner Program and has taken the extra step to validate BackWeb Offline Access Server with BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform," said Larry Aronovitz, director of Worldwide Partner Programs, BEA Systems. "BEA's validation program is designed to help accelerate adoption of partners' solutions and increase market opportunities by helping to assure mutual customers that these partners' technology solutions are verified to integrate with the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform." 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 Rosh Ha'ayin, 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 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. (C) 2004 BackWeb Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. BackWeb and Polite are registered trademarks of BackWeb Technologies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Media Contacts: Julie Martin Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton BackWeb Technologies LaunchSquad (for BackWeb) 408-933-1715 415-625-8555 DATASOURCE: BackWeb Technologies Ltd. CONTACT: Julie Martin of BackWeb Technologies, +1-408-933-1715; or Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton, both of LaunchSquad, +1-415-625-8555, for BackWeb Web site: http://www.backweb.com/

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