The Scenario
You are three days into a gender pay gap analysis. Your manager asked for it six days ago. The blocker is not the analysis — you know exactly what regression you want to run. The blocker is getting the base salary and allowance records out of SAP SuccessFactors and into the workbook where the model lives.
The bad version:
- Open Compensation in SuccessFactors, find the pay component export, realize it requires a separate report configuration in Report Center, spend twenty minutes building the report.
- Run the report, discover it exported 2,000 rows but some employees have multiple pay component records on the same effective date and the export flattened them incorrectly.
- Manually de-duplicate and re-pivot the data before you can even start the analysis.
The analysis is the job. Getting the data into a usable shape is supposed to take ten minutes, not three days.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that runs inside your Excel workbook. It connects to SAP SuccessFactors and can fetch compensation records directly — including recurring pay components — and write them into your Excel workbook in the structure you specify.
Fetch all SAP SuccessFactors recurring pay component records and write each employee's userId, payComponent code, amount, currency, and effective date into Sheet1
What You Get
- One row per pay component record in Sheet1.
- Columns: userId (A), payComponent (B), amount (C), currency (D), effectiveDate (E).
- Multiple pay components per employee appear as separate rows, not collapsed.
- Any record missing an amount value gets flagged in column F so you can decide how to handle it in the model.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You only need base salary records, not all pay components
Fetch all SAP SuccessFactors recurring pay component records where payComponent is "Base_Salary" and write userId, amount, currency, and effectiveDate into Sheet1
The model needs gender from a second SuccessFactors entity joined in
Fetch all SAP SuccessFactors recurring pay component records for Base_Salary, write userId, amount, and currency into Sheet1, then fetch each employee's gender from their PerPersonal record and write it into column D
The amounts are in multiple currencies and need USD equivalents
Fetch all SAP SuccessFactors recurring Base_Salary records, write userId, amount, and currency into Sheet1, then look up the currency conversion rates in Sheet2 column B and write the USD equivalent into column D
Full cleanup and analysis prep in one shot
Fetch all SAP SuccessFactors recurring pay component records, write userId, payComponent, amount, currency, and effectiveDate into Sheet1, remove any record where amount is zero or null, convert all amounts to USD using the rates in Sheet2, and flag any userId that appears more than once for the same payComponent in column F
One prompt does the pull, the currency conversion, and the duplicate flag — your model gets clean input on the first run.
Try It
If you have an Excel workbook set up for a compensation analysis, get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull recurring pay component records from SAP SuccessFactors directly into Sheet1. Then check the spoke on exporting non-recurring compensation for the bonus side of the picture.