Plumtree and BackWeb Form Alliance to Offer Customers Easy Offline Access to Plumtree's Enterprise Web Suite

Plumtree and BackWeb Form Alliance to Offer Customers Easy Offline Access to
Plumtree's Enterprise Web Suite
Plumtree to Resell BackWeb; Anytime Access to Mission Critical Applications, Web
Forms and Content Drives Productivity and Enterprise Web ROI 


SAN FRANCISCO and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 15  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software  and BackWeb Technologies , today
announced that Plumtree will resell BackWeb's Offline Access Server, giving
mobile Enterprise Web users access to applications and content when those users
are disconnected from the network. BackWeb's integration with Plumtree products
is designed to preserve all personalization and security features while
extending the value of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite.

Common customers such as Boehringer Ingleheim, announced separately today, are
using the solution to help increase employee productivity and portal ROI by
offline-enabling key sales and support applications. Plumtree and BackWeb will
host a Web seminar discussing the integrated offline solution on December 16,
2003 at 9:00 a.m. PT with registration available at
http://www.backweb.com/plumtree-webinar .

"Due to poor connectivity and multiple standards around the world, many workers
are frequently disconnected from their networks, and from their portals," said
Gene Phifer, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst with Gartner. "The need
for offline support is apparent."

Empowering employees across the enterprise to take their portal applications on
the road can drive productivity, improve decision-making and provide greater ROI
across Enterprise Web investments. With the Plumtree and BackWeb solution,
customers will be able to offer employees offline access to critical Enterprise
Web applications such as:

-- Sales Productivity Applications:  giving on-the-road salespeople access to
collateral, customer information, pricing or product information;

-- Customer Service Applications:  giving service people in the field offline
Web forms that can quickly be synchronized with the portal upon return to the
office, streamlining processes for repair status, ordering or billing; and

-- Executive Dashboards:  giving traveling executives access to financial or
production dashboards, balanced scorecards and breaking reports.

Plumtree will resell a Standard Edition of the BackWeb(R) Offline Access
Server(TM) with support for the entire Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite; this
functionality extends offline access to the Plumtree Corporate Portal, Plumtree
Content Server and Plumtree Collaboration Server, Microsoft Office integration
portlets and portlets created using Plumtree Studio Server. Plumtree will also
resell an Enterprise Edition of BackWeb's Offline Access Server which includes
all the capabilities of the Standard Edition, plus the added capability to
offline enable Plumtree's Integration Products, custom portlets, and 3rd party
portlets. Users of the offline features can subscribe to specific portlets,
content or applications for offline access ensuring that only the selected
content will be downloaded when the user logs off the

network; alternately, administrators can determine which content is downloaded
for offline access.

The Offline Access Server allows offline security settings, personalization and
preferences to mirror the portal settings, enabling a seamless transition from
the online to the offline experience. When users re- connect, only the changes
they have made will be uploaded to the portal, allowing for quick and easy
synchronization. If important information in the subscribed areas has changed
while users were offline, the portal will send the users an alert to notify them
of the change.

"BackWeb strongly believes that the ability to use critical business information
such as portals, intranets and Web applications is a non- negotiable requirement
for mobile employees, regardless of their physical location or Internet
connectivity," said Erez Lorber, BackWeb's vice president of worldwide sales and
business development. "As our early common customers with Plumtree have
demonstrated, BackWeb helps increase mobile and remote employee productivity.
This expanded relationship marks a major milestone in our 'offline everywhere'
strategy."

"Plumtree provides Enterprise Web technologies to help customers build a volume
and variety of applications to support their business objectives. As companies
fill up their Enterprise Web deployments with collaborative projects, business
processes and mission-critical applications, users increasingly rely on these
resources being available on the road," said Glenn Kelman, VP of marketing and
product management. "We partnered with BackWeb because their solution has the
functionality, security and scalability that our large enterprise customers are
demanding."

BackWeb's Offline Access Server is built to support the Plumtree Corporate
Portal 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0, Collaboration Server 3.0, Content Server 5.0, and
Studio Server 2.0.

About BackWeb Technologies

BackWeb Technologies is the 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. BackWeb customers include
market leaders such as 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 also 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.

BackWeb is a registered trademark 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 a wide range of Web applications. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and an application management framework for delivering these Web applications to
broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow
this solution to span rival application servers, 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/ .

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. These include, but are not limited to statements that the combined
Plumtree and BackWeb solution will increase employee productivity and portal ROI
by offline-enabling key sales and support applications, that BackWeb helps
increase mobile and remote employee productivity, that synchronization is quick
and easy, that there will be a seamless transition between online and offline
experiences, that the BackWeb solution has the functionality, security and
scalability in demand by customers, that BackWeb products reduce network costs
and improve the productivity, and that Plumtree's products help maximize
customers' return on their existing technology investments. 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. 

DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software



CONTACT:  Jason Mandell or Jason Throckmorton, both of LaunchSquad, for

BackWeb, [phone], or ; or Carilu Dietrich of

Plumtree Software, or [phone], or 



Web site:  http://www.backweb.com/ 

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