We would like to integrate sharepoint with our appian applicaiton and want to ma

There are two aspect to the SS. One is that you deploy the SharePoint plugin JAR file and you'll see new SharePoint Smart Services in your designer palette allowing you to push and pull documents from SharePoint. The configuration here is straight-forward -defined at the Data-->Input of the smart service.
The second one (not sure if this is also of interest to you) is the WebParts that you can deploy in SharePoint that would allow you to expose Appian within SharePoint.
In short, based on your message, I'd start with deploying the plug-in JAR file so you get the smart services in your Process Modeler for use.

There are two aspect to the SS. One is that you deploy the SharePoint plugin JAR file and you'll see new SharePoint Smart Services in your designer palette allowing you to push and pull documents from SharePoint. The configuration here is straight-forward -defined at the Data-->Input of the smart service.
The second one (not sure if this is also of interest to you) is the WebParts that you can deploy in SharePoint that would allow you to expose Appian within SharePoint.
In short, based on your message, I'd start with deploying the plug-in JAR file so you get the smart services in your Process Modeler for use.