Why SAP Support Radar?
SAP already provides official tooling to check the support/maintenance status of products in your own landscape: SAP Solution Manager (System Landscape/LMDB) and SAP for Me. SAP Support Radar is not a replacement for either — it fills a narrower, more specific gap alongside them.
What SAP's own tools give you — and what they assume
| Tool | What it's built for | What it assumes |
|---|---|---|
| SAP Solution Manager | Full landscape/application lifecycle management (System Landscape, LMDB, change/release management) across an entire SAP system landscape. | A running, configured Solution Manager system; your systems registered in it; a Solution Manager user with the relevant authorizations. |
| SAP for Me | SAP's unified customer portal — contracts, incidents, licenses, and a system overview tied to your S-user and your organization's customer number. | A valid S-user with access rights tied to your organization's SAP contracts; scoped to what SAP has on record for that customer. |
| SAP Support Radar | One narrow question, answered as simply as possible: which of the products I actually run are approaching end of support? | A PAM CSV export (see Installation) — nothing else. |
Both official tools are powerful, but that power comes with real weight: they're built for administering an entire SAP landscape, not for a quick "what's about to expire" check, and both gate access behind SAP system/contract authorizations that not everyone who needs this answer actually has.
What SAP Support Radar adds
1. A simple, user-friendly, global overview
One table. Every product version from your PAM export, searchable, filterable by status/category/line, and sortable by any maintenance date — see App workflow & pages → Overview. Instead of navigating Solution Manager's landscape management or SAP for Me's broader, contract-centric UI, you get a single page built around exactly one question: what's the status, and when does it change? Row highlighting (3 months to 3 years out) and a status-distribution chart make the "what needs attention soon" view immediate, without constructing a query first.
2. Easy upkeep of products that aren't tracked in those tools at all
Not everything you run is a registered SAP system with a corresponding Solution Manager/LMDB entry or a line item SAP for Me knows about — custom-built components, a product you're evaluating, or anything your official landscape data simply hasn't caught up with yet. Manage my products lets you mark any PAM entry as "yours," and Create product lets you add an entry by hand for something that isn't in the PAM export at all — both in minutes, with no system registration step.
3. The same data, queryable by an AI
The bundled MCP server exposes the identical PAM data as tools an LLM client can call directly — see ADR 0007 for why this is a separate, independent server rather than a feature bolted onto the app. In practice, that means an AI assistant reviewing an architecture document or a technical/functional specification that names concrete SAP product versions can look up their support status inline, as part of that review, instead of a human having to separately open a browser, search, and cross-reference by hand. See MCP server → Worked example for an actual, verified round trip.
4. No SAP system access or authorization required
SAP Support Radar is a static, client-only web app — see ADR 0001. It has no connection to any SAP system, requires no S-user, and needs no Solution Manager or SAP for Me authorization to run. All it needs is a PAM CSV export, which per ADR 0006 you supply yourself — once you have that export, the tool itself imposes no further access gate.
5. Easy access for everyone who needs the answer
Solution Manager and SAP for Me access is typically scoped to SAP Basis/operations roles with system authorizations or a customer-number-linked S-user. The question "is this product still supported" isn't only relevant to that group, though — architects, consultants, and developers who are evaluating or designing against a given SAP product version need the same answer, often without ever needing (or having) SAP system access themselves. Since the app only needs a PAM export and runs entirely in the browser, anyone who has that export — or access to a deployed instance, or the MCP server — can get the same answer.
What this deliberately doesn't try to be
SAP Support Radar has no concept of your actual installed systems, no change/release management, no incident handling, and no connection to your SAP contracts or licenses. If you need those, Solution Manager and SAP for Me remain the right tools — SAP Support Radar's job starts and ends at "is this product version still supported, and for how long," for whatever you've told it is yours.