The company's purpose is to provide consulting and other services in the fields of information technology, software development, and technology marketing in Switzerland and abroad, as well as to trade in goods of all kinds. It can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries, participate in related companies, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights. The company can engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that appear to promote the company's purpose, are related to the company's purpose, or are in the interest of the group or its individual group companies. The company can provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide securities of all kinds, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or guarantees, joint and several liabilities, or sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. This can also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks.