Your DBs can stay on 2008R2, you will just install another instance with powerpivot integration. So powerpivot will run on 2012 SQL analysis services, but RDBMS will run still on 2008R2.
Marek Chmel, WBI Systems (MCTS, MCITP, MCT, CCNA)
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