During the next twelve months, the application was expanded with customer relationship management (CRM) functionality and this package is now available as EPESI, an alternative to products like SugarCRM or vtiger. From November, 2012 Epesi can be installed with Softaculous Autoinstaller   In August 2013 EPESI was added to Enterprise-Ready Open Source Projects on SourceForge  and ranks as one of the top CRM and ERP applications with 5 star rating. Dashboard Calendar Record browser  EPESI framework takes advantage of some third party libraries like database driver ADOdb or jQuery. The framework allows development of new modules, especially when utilizing Record Browser - a module that automatically generates views, limits queries, stores historical data, etc. The dashboard approach allows every user customize his or her workspace using applets - mini view of data stored in the module. For example, an applet may show only phone calls to be returned today. A distinct feature is the Watchdog utility, which allows a user to subscribe to a record (or category of records) and have the system monitor it for you. This way a user receives a notification (Subscriptions applet) when a record was changed by another user - a meeting was canceled, a phone number or an address was updated, a project status changed from Completed to Billed or even when a note was attached to a record. Every record can have an unlimited number of notes or attachments in any possible format. EPESI incorporates Roundcube IMAP e-mail client and provides single instance message archiving. When a user receives an e-mail it can be archived into epesi system. An e-mail message is extracted from e-mail client and stored in the database in e-mails table. Attachments are stored as files with reference links. Then a link to this e-mail (or e-mail with attachments) is created under history of two contacts: a sender and a recipient. This way the e-mail becomes a public note for all users to see. This reduces e-mail traffic - instead of forwarding coworkers an e-mail with attachment resulting in wasted space a single instance of this e-mail is sufficient. Additionally, reference links can be created in as many modules as needed (for example, a meeting or a task can have reference links to this e-mail). EPESI is available as open source application and distributed free of charge. The base version includes the Epesi framework and set of modules providing CRM functionality:  The functionality of Epesi can be extended with Custom modules (created by end-users for example) or by installing additional Premium modules.