diff --git a/annotation/pom.xml b/annotation/pom.xml
index 7d7aff4cb1980831a52f8816711d813c017bbb6b..6bf7a1b4520a3c3863e31be1357ef9adcc2408ed 100644
--- a/annotation/pom.xml
+++ b/annotation/pom.xml
@@ -192,17 +192,17 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 <!-- mockito used for testing -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a8adf9f7c41337b1f9961934ab407e653af131da..e83320afe08cce2358e528fbffe5d49c62f56de2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 		
 		<apache.commons-lang3.version>3.1</apache.commons-lang3.version>
 		<apache.httpcomponents.version>4.4</apache.httpcomponents.version>
+		<apache.poi.version>3.12</apache.poi.version>
 		
 		<commons-io.version>2.4</commons-io.version>
 		<commons-cli.version>1.2</commons-cli.version>
diff --git a/service/pom.xml b/service/pom.xml
index 69b47c0311f080c8507031f030a0673ac16f2586..72f58ccaf09ba10c4eef489ee7b14c9a7250ce4f 100644
--- a/service/pom.xml
+++ b/service/pom.xml
@@ -113,17 +113,17 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
-			<version>3.10-FINAL</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
 			<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
-			<version>3.12</version>
+			<version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.unboundid/unboundid-ldapsdk -->