Appian announced agentic AI enhancements to the platform to help businesses build, deploy, and scale intelligent process applications. As a process management company, Appian provides AI-powered solutions to orchestrate and transform critical business processes. This new release of the Appian platform introduces the beta launch of Agent Studio and the general availability of AI Document Center . Additional enhancements include expanded Data Fabric support for document management and semantic search across data and documents.
Agentic AI makes business processes smarter and faster
Appian has been integrating AI agents into processes for years . Now, with Agent Studio , Appian AI agents are more powerful and easier to pilot than ever. Agent Studio allows users to design and deploy AI agents with greater autonomy and contextual awareness. These AI agents can reason through complex, multi-step tasks. They can also interact with multiple systems to update records, send emails, and dynamically respond to new input. Agent Studio allows developers to create intelligent agents that not only execute actions but also make informed decisions based on real-time data and business logic.
Users can quickly and easily create agents with AI Document Center, an all-in-one application for intelligent document processing. AI Document Center is designed to handle complex document formats with high extraction accuracy and scalability for business workloads. Appian customer Century Fire Protection used AI Document Center to automate its accounts payable with AI, reducing invoice processing time by 36%.
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“Adding Appian AI to Century’s accounts payable workflow has enabled a more modern, controlled, and efficient process, resulting in significant benefits,” said Alex Polyakman, CFO of Century Fire Protection.
Intelligent Search leverages AI-driven semantic search to improve information retrieval. It enables searches across your entire data fabric, including text fields or documents associated with a case, all at enterprise scale. Intelligent Search goes beyond keyword matching: it interprets intent, discovering connections, detecting patterns, and surfacing related data.
In addition to high availability, generative AI agents can now be used in Autoscale processes , helping businesses remain responsive and efficient even as demand increases. Autoscale is a feature of Appian Cloud that dynamically adjusts process execution capacity based on demand. Purpose-built for high-volume, high-throughput automation, process autoscale delivers 10x to 100x more power without overprovisioning resources. Now, businesses can power their high-volume, high-value generative AI uses with enterprise-grade AI.
Other improvements to the Data Fabric and overall experience include:
- The Data Fabric now includes native support for documents. Organizations can manage, link, and secure documents using document categories, eliminating the need for folder-based organization and enabling developers to build more document-centric applications.
- Incremental synchronizations support dynamic data environments. The Data Fabric now supports external data synchronization every 15 minutes and up to 20 million rows per record, ensuring responsive and up-to-date applications.
- Headers and wizards accelerate form design. Appian user interfaces now automatically integrate a common form header, assistive features, and recommend modern UX patterns. Forms generated from the Data Fabric will see the most improvements.
“AI works best within a process. Appian’s process orchestration and data fabric provide the foundation to derive real value from AI, while ensuring data security,” said Michael Beckley , CTO and founder of Appian.
Appian is the process company focused on improving the processes that define a business—from how it operates to how it serves customers and creates value. By embedding AI into processes, Appian gives AI purpose, governance, and accountability—all essential to its value creation.
Source: PRNewswire