The following prerequisite knowledge is required for this product:
- Computer technology and terminology
- Vantage
- Relational database management systems
- Connectivity software, such as ODBC
- Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Oracle Solaris running on a SPARC system, Solaris running on an AMD Opteron system, IBM AIX, LINUX, IBM z/OS, and Apple macOS operating systems
- Utilities that load and export data