Although BackWeb has features suitable for large and small companies, the price limits its feasibility to businesses with a big budget. We tested a beta version of the client and server on Windows NT 4.
Administrators can choose any of the Polite Server protocols.
The addition of the Infocenter Server now makes it possible to deliver Web channels using the Polite Server protocols. Web channels use agents to pull information from corporate Web sites and push it to the desktop in a scrolling ticker tape. File-delivery channels allow quick and easy distribution of upgrades or large packages of content, such as administrative manuals. CDF channels let administrators quickly aggregate existing information from a variety of sources, without reformatting that data. The best way to use BackWeb is to combine the channel types to target information to the whole company, to subsets of employees, or to individual users.