Both Appian AI and non-Appian AI customers are able to use the out-of-the-box AI services as long as they have a valid Google Cloud set up and meet the minimum system requirements. To use certain AI functionality, you will need to download and deploy additional plug-ins before you can use the Appian design objects in your application.
Review the sections below to ensure you are ready to begin building AI into your application.
Since Appian AI leverages the power of Google Cloud AI, you must have a Google Cloud account, service account, and service account key to connect to Google Cloud AI services.
If you have opted in to being an Appian AI customer, your Google Cloud setup is already handled for you.
Appian will configure a Google Cloud Platform project on your behalf. Since the project uses automatic provisioning, your service account credentials are generated automatically and no other users see or have access to the credentials during the process. For more details on Google's data security and privacy practices, see Google Cloud Security.
Once the project is set up, the service account credentials, bucket names, and region information will be sent to your Appian technical contact through the License Management site on Appian Community. To get started, contact your Appian technical contact administrator to obtain your credentials.
Your technical contact administrator is listed on the Accounts page in Community, under Administrators. Note that you must be registered with your company on Community to access this site.
If you've purchased Google Cloud separately and already have an existing account, you don't need to create a new one to use Appian AI. You will, however, need to take a few additional configuration steps.
To use the Appian AI offering, you must do the following:
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Google Cloud Storage JSON API
Cloud Document AI API
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document.To use custom machine learning models or access a Google Cloud Storage bucket in your application, you'll need to deploy the associated connected system plug-ins:
To deploy the plug-ins for Appian Cloud installations:
To deploy plug-ins for self-managed installations, see Appian Suite Plug-Ins.