BackWeb Technologies Ltd. has announced a solution that's designed to help BEA customers more easily and cost-effectively mobilize, or offline enable, any BEA Web application for mobile laptop users with intermittent network connectivity. Announced at BEA's eWorld Conference in San Francisco, the joint solution aims to help sales and field service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains from employees using BEA Web applications while disconnected from the network.

Customers utilize BackWeb Offline Access Server technology to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and Web applications for increased field sales and field service productivity. BackWeb and BEA have worked with joint customers and have demonstrated the strength of their combined solution with a range of companies. Among their customers is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, which is providing thousands of mobile sales representatives uninterrupted availability of content in their portal (which is based on BEA and Documentum technology). Another client is a multi-billion dollar healthcare company that is giving their field sales representatives mobile access to critical content such as contacts, leads, and opportunities.

BackWeb will integrate its BackWeb Offline Access Server technology with WebLogic Workshop to allow developers to simultaneously create applications that work both online and offline and help obtain the highest possible return from investments in Web applications built with BEA Workshop.