Abstract: Under one aspect, an automated data configuration engine receives first and second sets of files that are from respective companies, include unique employee identifiers for employees respectively employed on first and second dates, and can have different formats than one another. The automated data configuration engine parses each file of the first and second sets of files to extract portions of those files corresponding to the unique employee identifiers, and generates first and second sets of database entries for each of the companies including the extracted portions and the respective first or second dates. The automated data configuration engine also obtains employee termination data for each of the respective companies; and generates a third set of database entries for each of the companies including the employee termination data of the respective company.