Symptom

You are not sure which SAP NetWeaver release is necessary to run NWBC v3.0.

Solution

NWBC v3.0 against an ABAP stack with PFCG as role repository requires at a minimum the following SAP NetWeaver releases:

For SAP NetWeaver 7.00 and SAP NetWeaver 7.01, NWBC is only released for limited use cases, as is described in SAP note 1368177. For SAP NetWeaver 7.02, NWBC is generally released. This applies to both flavors of NWBC v3.0 (NWBC for Desktop as well as NWBC for HTML).