On December 1st 2015, Microsoft announced a new product “PowerApps” in Convergence 2015 EMEA

PowerApps is a tool allowing you to easily create mobile and tablet apps from various datasources – not only just Microsoft products such as Excel and Dynamics CRM, but also other services such as Google Drive and Dropbox etc.

It does not require sophisticated programming and instead Excel like equations are used for development.

As of 2016/4/8, PowerApps is still released as preview version requiring invitation. If you are interested, go to this site by Microsoft to request an invite to PowerApps. (You cannot use free mail services such as Outlook Mail or Gmail etc for registration)

After a few days, you will receive an email like below:

Click on “Let’s get started”


A browser will popup.

Fill-in the email address and click on “sign up”.


After a few seconds, a verification screen will show up. Just click “Yes, it’s me”.


 

Fill in your name and password. Once filled, click on “begin”


 

If this screen shows up, your registration is complete and ready to start!