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Boehringer Ingelheim Deploys BackWeb's Offline Solution for the Plumtree
Corporate Portal
Global Pharmaceutical Company Now Provides Field Employees with Anytime Access
to Critical Competitive, Product and Sales Information
SAN FRANCISCO and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software and offline Web software provider
BackWeb Technologies , announced today that Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the
world's 20 largest pharmaceutical companies, has successfully deployed BackWeb's
offline solution with its Plumtree-powered employee portal, PortalUK. Boehringer
Ingelheim is now giving its UK sales and field employees offline access to
enterprise applications and critical sales, marketing, regulation and product
development information in the portal.
Since one third of Boehringer Ingelheim UK's employees are part of a field force
with intermittent connectivity, Boehringer Ingelheim needed a solution that
would allow employees to access and make changes to information presented in the
portal when offline, with essentially the same personalized user experience as
online. The integrated Plumtree and BackWeb solution met the need and is helping
Boehringer improve productivity, accelerate business processes and react to new
business opportunities more quickly and effectively.
"The deployment of PortalUK represents a major milestone in our goal to provide
employees at all levels of the company with access to all of the applications
and information they need to meet their objectives," said Kamy Missaghi, CIO of
Boehringer Ingelheim. "The success of this initiative hinges on ensuring that
the portal environment is as useful and as relevant to our extensive mobile
workforce as possible. We immediately recognized offline portal access as a way
to meet this objective."
Boehringer Ingelheim selected Plumtree to provide employees with a single point
of access to applications and information from across the enterprise. Using the
portal, Boehringer Ingelheim staff members can search for, view and publish
up-to-date data on product development, regulation, sales and marketing, and can
work with business intelligence information from Cognos and Boehringer's
financial planning tools. Bringing the information together in one Enterprise
Web environment saves time and enables key decision-makers to make fully
informed decisions.
Boehringer Ingelheim selected BackWeb to expand the reach and value of the
portal by providing offline access. With this offline functionality, Boehringer
Ingelheim field employees can take all of their portal information and
capabilities on the go. They are also able to reduce time spent online searching
for and reading information, often on slow modems, since information relevant to
their jobs can immediately be downloaded for their offline portal use.
Boehringer Ingelheim has big plans for the portal and the BackWeb(R) Offline
Access Server(TM) and intends to soon give employees access to expense and
timesheet tracking applications from the portal and video clips of product
demonstrations.
"As customers build rich, business-critical applications in the portal, they
increasingly need to offer employees, partners or customers offline access to
those applications," said Glenn Kelman, vice president of marketing and product
management at Plumtree. "As Boehringer Ingelheim's successful deployment shows,
Plumtree's integration with BackWeb's offline solution extends the value of our
customers' portals to a new audience of mobile workers, driving ROI."
"Boehringer Ingelheim's deployment of BackWeb's technology showcases the
importance of integrating offline capabilities into the portal right from the
get-go," said Bill Heye, vice president of professional services for BackWeb.
"By providing offline access from the beginning, companies are able to increase
the utility and often the ROI of their portals, especially for their mobile
users."
Why BackWeb's Offline Access Server for Plumtree?
Boehringer Ingelheim chose BackWeb for its experience integrating with the
Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, its open architecture, and its enterprise
scalability. Boehringer Ingelheim was also looking for a solution that would
provide rapid time-to-value, installing quickly and making a significant impact
on the business.
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 HP, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Siemens AG, Owens-Illinois General,
Guidant, Lam Research, Cisco Systems, NBC, Fidelity Investments and more than
one hundred other companies. BackWeb has several strategic reseller alliances
with software industry leaders including 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.
About Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the
enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, foundation services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences.
Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to
span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their
existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries,
Plumtree has licensed over 550 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company,
Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the
Web at http://www.plumtree.com/.
NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its
subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and
unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole 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, that the
integrated Plumtree and BackWeb solution will help Boehringer Ingelheim improve
productivity, accelerate business processes and react to new business
opportunities more quickly and effectively, that bringing information together
in one Plumtree Enterprise Web environment saves time and enables key
decision-makers to make fully informed decisions, that the BackWeb solution will
expand the reach and value of Boehringer Ingelheim's portal; that Plumtree's
integration with BackWeb's offline solution extends the value of customers'
portals to a new audience of mobile workers, which will drive ROI, that by
providing offline access from the beginning of a portal deployment, companies
are able to increase the utility and ROI of their portals, especially for their
mobile users, and that BackWeb solution has enterprise scalability and provides
rapid time-to-value, installing quickly and making a significant impact on
business. 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 Carilu Dietrich
LaunchSquad (for BackWeb) Plumtree Software
415-625-8555 415-399-7047
DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software
CONTACT: Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton both of LaunchSquad,
+1-415-625-8555, or , for BackWeb Technologies; or
Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or
Web site: http://www.backweb.com/
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