What’s happening
AppSheet Enterprise Plus users can now add the new AI Task powered by Gemini, directly into their existing AppSheet automations. The AI Task can perform the following functions: Extract, Extract Rows, Categorize, and Summarize. This means it can enable AppSheet to:
- Automatically extract key information from uploaded photos
- Parse complex PDFs such as invoices
- Categorize, route, and summarize incoming requests based on their content.
Users can also quickly test individual steps within their workflow using the integrated AI Task Step Testing feature.
Gemini extracting book info from its cover.
AI Made Easy & Powerful for Business Users: Gemini in AppSheet significantly simplifies how you incorporate advanced AI functions, such as data extraction and categorization, into your apps. It's designed to be user-friendly and effective:
- Get started quickly: These AI capabilities work out-of-the-box
- Customize with context: Easily add additional context or instructions to tailor the results to your specific needs.
Here are just a few examples of what you can do:
- Extract purchase details from a PDF contract, categorize order details by fulfillment team, and assign follow up action items
- Extract equipment information from a photo
- Analyze the description in employee expense submissions and automatically categorize them by type ("Travel", "Meals", "Software", "Training")
- Summarize customer requests, inspection logs, and more
AI with Governance: Admins have visibility into and control over the use of Gemini in AppSheet among their Enterprise users. Admins can:
- See in the AppSheet admin console
- How many credits their organization is entitled to,
- How many have been consumed,
- Which users and which applications are leveraging Gemini in AppSheet
- Define governance policies to control or disable the use of AI Tasks – learn more about controlling which app creators can use AI in automations.
Additional details
We’ve also made a few additional improvements between preview and general availability:
- Extract and Categorize now support more types of columns
- Columns of REF types so you can leverage information in linked tables
- Date and Time columns
- Price columns
- You can now extract information not just from images and PDF files, but also from unstructured text data hosted in your data sources. In other words, you can select Text and LongText columns as inputs to the Extract AI task.
- You can now trigger any AI task on a schedule.
Getting started
- Admins: This feature is ON by default and can be disabled or controlled with governance policies by the AppSheet admin. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
- End users: This feature can be enabled by the user for their apps. Visit the Help Center to quickly learn how to set up an AI Task in your own app or simply make a copy of this AppSheet template app.
Rollout pace
- This feature is available now.
Availability
- Available for AppSheet Enterprise Plus
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