PowerPivot supported Data Sources [Oracle]

Reading about
Supported data sources in Office help page I see:
'.NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle Client'
Does this refers to Oracle's ODP.NET Managed dll?
I succesfully installed Oracle's managed dll with xcopy/deployment [platform: both] [machine wide:true] but trying to create a connection with the wizard in PowerPivot ('Get External Data' -> 'From Other Sources' -> 'Oracle' -> 'Advanced' ->
'Oracle Data Provider for .Net') I still see in the connection string textbox the following message:
'Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed'
I'd wish to connect from a Windows 7 x64 pro with Office ProPlus 2013 x86 (without installing the complete Oracle Client and hopefully no TNSNAMES) to some tables from a remote Oracle Db server.
Thanks in advance for any info
Marco

Thank you Ed for your kind attention, still working on this though I found a couple workarounds...
It looks like the .NET provider Excel/PP UI refers to is still the deprecated System.Data.OracleClient stuff, am I right?
Btw I think my OP still partially make sense, so I'll try to elaborate a bit.
As Excel/PP UI is (was?) able to let final user interact with a managed assembly/provider is there any way to use official Oracle ODP.Net driver instead?
I know that installing Oracle Client everything could work with Oracle
OLEDB Provider.
I know how to write code in a VSTO Excel solution using Oracle managed access .NET Provider to connect to db server data
without installing Oracle Client and without TNSNAMES but how to let final PP user being able to create a data connection through fully managed code, using only 'Get external Data' wizard through PP?
My first class target is still about being able to deploy Excel/PP personalized BI solutions to Oracle power users without having to install and configure Oracle client.
Is this possible?
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