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Microsoft's 'next billion dollar business' is launching today

Microsoft PowerApps, a set of applications that the company described in a job listing as the "next billion dollar business for cloud and enterprise," is launching today.

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According to a press release, PowerApps gives developers the ability to build custom native apps that can run across mobile and web. 

The goal of the service is to let businesses find, and harness, data throughout the organisation — which includes both on-premise and Software-as-a-Service apps — without writing any code. 

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures during his keynote address at the company's "build" conference in San Francisco, California April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Business Insider's Matt Weinberger wrote a deep dive looking at PowerApps and what it can do for Microsoft and businesses

The service is being rolled out to a small group of testers. 

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Twitter user @h0x0d noticed that the website for PowerApps, which currently work under the codename "Kratos," was set live earlier this morning. At the time, trying to log into the website with a Microsoft account yielded no results. 

The page has since gone live

PowerApps was mistakenly revealed by Microsoft in a set of job listings, which have now been deleted. The application and use of the apps, which work alongside Azure remain unclear.

"Our team is chartered to build rich engaging mobile apps that pull together information from across enterprise and consumer sources and make it easy for Information Workers to build and extend such apps," the listing read. 

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LinkedIn currently lists two accounts related to PowerApps: a project manager and a software engineer.   

The website features a video that talks about how "our work has never been more empowered by technology" before running through what PowerApps is and how to use it. 

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The PowerApps websites invites businesses to test its services. Max Slater-Robins / BI
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