SAP SuccessFactors MCP connector
The SAP SuccessFactors connector brings employee records, jobs, compensation, terminations and org structure into Elaichi, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent can answer questions from them inside each person's own SAP SuccessFactors access.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
32 tools
How to connect
How to connect SAP SuccessFactors to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect SAP SuccessFactors once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick SAP SuccessFactors.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a SAP SuccessFactors API key. One person generates a token in SAP SuccessFactors and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
SAP SuccessFactors MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
SAP SuccessFactors MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
SAP SuccessFactors MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect SAP SuccessFactors to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with SAP SuccessFactors through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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HR
Answer a headcount question before the meeting
Ask how many people sit in a department, division or location today and get the number from live SAP SuccessFactors employment records, not last month's spreadsheet.
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People Ops
Pull the new joiner list every Monday
List everyone whose employment started this month, with their job code, department and manager relationship, ready to paste into the onboarding plan.
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Payroll
Check compensation before the pay run
Look up recurring and one-off pay components for a pay group and spot anything that changed since the last cycle.
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Finance
Map people to cost centers for the forecast
Get every active employment grouped by cost center, company and business unit so the headcount budget matches what SAP SuccessFactors actually holds.
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IT
Reconcile leavers against system access
List employment terminations from the past two weeks and compare them with who still has accounts, so offboarding does not lag behind.
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Managers
Find a report's emergency contact fast
When something happens, ask for an employee's emergency contacts, phone numbers and work location and get them in seconds without opening SAP SuccessFactors.
Try asking
- “List everyone who joined the Berlin location this month with job codes”
- “Which employment terminations happened in March, grouped by department?”
- “Show emergency contacts and phones for employees in cost center 4100”
AI tools
SAP SuccessFactors tools for your AI agents
32 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect SAP SuccessFactors, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting SAP SuccessFactors gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your SAP SuccessFactors account.
The agent
Ask about headcount, get today's answer.
Three prompts, live persons, jobs and departments from SAP SuccessFactors, answered in plain language.
- persons
- employments
- compensations
- departments
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
List everyone who joined the Berlin location this month with job codes
Which employment terminations happened in March, grouped by department?
Show emergency contacts and phones for employees in cost center 4100
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One endpoint, every client, no shared key.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach SAP SuccessFactors through one governed endpoint, each person signed in.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
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Tool catalog
32 SAP SuccessFactors tools, zero code written.
Persons, employments, compensation and org foundation objects, covered without an engineer building anything.
- List all SAP SuccessFactors odata per persons
- List all SAP SuccessFactors odata per personals
- List all SAP SuccessFactors odata per emails
- List all SAP SuccessFactors odata per phones
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Each team gets its own SAP SuccessFactors toolbox.
HR sees compensation, managers see jobs and departments, IT sees locations and cost centers.
- HR
- Payroll
- Finance
- IT
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Teammates work through it, never see the key.
One person connects SAP SuccessFactors and shares it with teams, nobody else touches the API key.
- HR EMEA
- HR Americas
- Payroll
- Finance
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every lookup, named, timestamped, kept for good.
Who read which SAP SuccessFactors employment or compensation record, when, in one append-only log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule starts the work, a person approves.
Monday fires, new hires and terminations are fetched, grouped, drafted, approved, then sent on.
SAP SuccessFactors digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch persons
SAP SuccessFactors
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
SAP SuccessFactors
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Headcount numbers refresh themselves, nobody asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of employments created, a team breakdown, computed without a model.
SAP SuccessFactors health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the persons collection
Persons
1,284 ↓ 12%
Employments
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Persons created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
HR EMEA 34%
HR Americas 27%
Payroll 21%
Finance 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect SAP SuccessFactors to Claude?
Connect SAP SuccessFactors in Elaichi by pasting in an API key from your SAP SuccessFactors account; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Claude can start answering questions from your SAP SuccessFactors records.
Does SAP SuccessFactors work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once SAP SuccessFactors is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect SAP SuccessFactors once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my SAP SuccessFactors data?
An agent can look up people, their emails, phones, addresses, national IDs and emergency contacts, and read their employments, jobs, compensation, pay components and terminations in SAP SuccessFactors. It can also read the org structure: companies, locations, departments, divisions, business units, cost centers, pay groups, job codes and job functions. Short, concrete asks such as "list terminations in March by department" work better than long sentences.
Does connecting SAP SuccessFactors give the AI access to everyone's records?
No. Every call to SAP SuccessFactors runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so the agent sees the same employees, compensation and org data that person could already open. Elaichi can narrow that further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen it beyond what SAP SuccessFactors already allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in SAP SuccessFactors?
This SAP SuccessFactors connector reads records; it does not change or delete anything. Even so, Elaichi restrictions work per action, so you can switch off any lookup, such as compensation or national IDs, for a team. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a SAP SuccessFactors connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to SAP SuccessFactors through every client at once. A shared SAP SuccessFactors connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want it gone entirely, disconnecting SAP SuccessFactors once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client.
Does the SAP SuccessFactors MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. SAP SuccessFactors is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Put SAP SuccessFactors in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.