There is increasing demand for corporate information systems that have a si
mple human interface and are easy to access via WWW browsers. This paper pr
oposes WebBASE, which integrates the WWW and relational databases. Experime
ntal evaluation shows that WebBASE offers superior performance compared to
existing products. Field studies of actual WebBASE applications show that i
t can improve the productivity of software developers for intranet applicat
ion development.