Is EPDM 2017 compatible with SolidWorks 2015 SP03?

My company is currently running SW 2015 SP03 with EPDM 2016. We want to bring our SW install up to 2017 but have been advised that we must first have our PDM vault at 2017. Is EPDM 2017 backwards compatible to SW 2015 SP03?

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