UPDATE Feb 27, 2013: read about a workaround to get a Volume License Agreement for just 30$. If you are not included in a Microsoft Volume License Agreement, the only way to get a copy of Excel 2013 that has all PowerPivot and Power View features available is getting an Office 365 ProPlus subscription. The only way to get these full BI features is through a Microsoft Volume License Agreement or Office 365 service. Office 365 ProPlus via Office 365 ( Subscription when it becomes available (February 27, 2013).Excel 2013 stand-alone UPDATE – any stand-alone version of Excel 2013 has PowerPivot.Office Professional Plus 2013 via Open, Select or EA.So what are the version of Office 2013 that enable the usage of PowerPivot features? Also Power View is available only in these versions of Excel.Use PowerPivot window and all the other features available there.PowerPivot features available in selected versions of Office 2013 (*).Navigate a data model with multiple tables using a single PivotTable.Data Model features available in all Excel 2013 versions.However, you have to be careful about the Excel 2013 version you use, because not all the versions have all the features available. In Excel 2013, PowerPivot is already installed and you just have to enable it. In order to start using PowerPivot for Excel 2010, you just have to download the add-in and install it for free. Many people started using PowerPivot with Excel 2010. If you already have Excel 2013 stand-alone, you should see PowerPivot enabled in an upcoming update.

This post was originally published on and is now outdated. UPDATE Aug 16, 2013: Excel 2013 stand-alone now includes Power Pivot(now the name has a space and it is no longer a single word!).

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