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Viador and BackWeb Team to Proactively Push
Critical Business Information to Enterprise Portal
Users
Companies to Integrate BackWeb's Polite Push Technology With Viador's E-Portal Suite
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000-- Viador Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq:VIAD - news), a leading provider of
enterprise portals, and BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq:BWEB - news), a leading provider of push for e-business solutions,
today announced a joint effort to allow Viador E-Portal Suite(TM) customers to transform their enterprise portals into
proactive, personalized sources of current and vital information.
Viador's E-Portal Suite, which provides a single, secure point of access to all sources of business information, will be integrated
with BackWeb's Polite(TM) push technology, enabling portal hosts to proactively send critical and time-sensitive content to
portal subscribers, and then notifying them via a high-impact alert when it arrives. BackWeb also automatically ensures that
portal subscribers always have the most current information, with updates delivered efficiently and politely in the background.
``The enterprise portal is fast becoming the core building block for e-businesses. Our work with BackWeb reflects our
aggressive efforts to partner with industry leaders to bring our customers the most advanced and complete solutions in the
market,' said Stan Wang, president and CEO of Viador. ``By integrating BackWeb's Polite push capabilities with Viador's
E-Portal Suite, we are extending the portal beyond the browser, and adding a new personalized, automated information service
that ensures proactive notification of important information, while always providing users with the most current content.'
Businesses can benefit broadly from the integration of BackWeb's push technology into Viador's E-Portal Suite. For example,
an enterprise portal for a financial services firm can automatically alert its traders to changes in market conditions, and even
offer them a chance to buy or sell stock simply by responding to the alert. Or a computer products manufacturer can use its
enterprise portal to ensure that sales people, field engineers and resellers all have the latest marketing materials and
documentation delivered automatically to their desktops.
``Viador is a pioneer of the proactive enterprise portal, and together we are transforming the notion of what a portal can be,'
said Eli Barkat, chairman and CEO of BackWeb Technologies. ``We are delighted to work with Viador to provide
groundbreaking solutions for new and existing customers who will benefit from their creative use of BackWeb technology,
which is fast developing as a de facto Internet standard.'
With BackWeb's patented Polite push technology, Global 2,000 companies can deliver multimedia-rich digital packages of any
size or format, including audio, video, graphics and html. BackWeb's Polite Agent(TM) avoids disrupting the consumer by
using only available bandwidth and politely delivering the information in the background. BackWeb allows anyone who is
connected to a network to automatically receive notifications and/or content sent by their business portal, even if they are not
actively browsing the Web or visiting the portal. With Viador's enterprise portal, this unique feature allows content to
proactively find users and, if appropriate, return them to the portal site.
Viador's E-Portal Suite customers will be able to seamlessly deploy BackWeb's push for e-business solutions for proactive
content delivery and response in Q2 2000. Also as part of a new cooperative marketing agreement, each company will train its
sales force on both product lines, and participate in joint sales and marketing activities.
About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading provider of push for e-business solutions that enable companies to communicate
time-sensitive, business-critical information throughout the extended enterprise of customers, partners and employees. Via
Internet-based applications and proactive portals, corporations such as Cisco, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Schlumberger
Dowell have deployed BackWeb's Polite(TM) push Internet infrastructure for managing critical changes for key e-business and
customer service applications. BackWeb Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California, and Ramat Gan, Israel. For
more information, visit its web site at www.backweb.com or call 800/863-0100.
About Viador Inc.
Viador Inc. (Nasdaq:VIAD - news) is a leading developer of enterprise portals that help corporations leverage their
information and technology assets to gain business advantages. The company's Viador E-Portal Suite gives thousands of users,
including business managers and analysts, rich yet easy-to-use functionality that is based on a thin-client scalable architecture
that supports widespread deployment at a low cost of ownership.
Viador and its Viador E-Portal Suite solution have already received widespread industry recognition and awards including
Application Development Trends' Innovator Award (for Sprint PCS), CIO's WebBusiness 50/50, CrossRoads 2000 A-List,
Data Warehouse Institute's Solution Provider, DCI's Excellence in Business Information, Federal Computer Week's Top 10
Companies to Watch list, IBM's Solution Showcase Award and being named to the InfoWorld 100.
Viador's innovative technology is used by customers including 3Com, Charles Schwab, Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), IBM, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Shiseido, Sprint PCS and Xerox. Viador is headquartered in San
Mateo, Calif. For more information, call 650/685-3000 or visit the Web site at www.viador.com. |
