diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 819d6edbfee..cf8640be341 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     <properties>
         <elasticsearch.version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</elasticsearch.version>
         <lucene.version>4.9.0</lucene.version>
+        <poi.version>3.11-beta1</poi.version>
         <tests.jvms>1</tests.jvms>
         <tests.shuffle>true</tests.shuffle>
         <tests.output>onerror</tests.output>
@@ -78,6 +79,38 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
+            <version>${poi.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
+            <version>${poi.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
+            <version>${poi.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>poi-scratchpad</artifactId>
+            <version>${poi.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
+            <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
+            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
             <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>