Something about Support Packages

I was asked to find the newest level of Support Package (SP) for client’s SAP BI system. Since SAP introduced concept of Support Package Stacks (SPS) this gets little bit difficult. While you click at

http://service.sap.com/bi -> Product Information SAP NetWeaver 7.0 - BI -> Support Packages ->

then you choose:

Support Package Stack Schedule

or

SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Support Package Stacks

You will get just the version of SPSs but not SPs. If you want to see SPs which may differ because SPSs is valid e.g. for whole SAP NetWeaver 2004s for particular component of it e.g. BI there can be higher version of SP. There is a nice page where you can directly find SPs which you are interested in:

https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap/bc/bsp/spn/spat/index.htm?

sp1=SAPKW70013

Just supply the the component that you need to the end of URL to variable sp1 e.g. SAPKW70013.

Another page which deals with SP release strategy can be found here:

https://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000674496

Once Support Package Stack 10 has been delivered, there are intermediate Support Packages for BI. This means that customers no longer have to implement notes because these are now combined in the intermediate Support Package.