The company's purpose is to plan, develop, produce, market and sell software products and IT solutions, as well as to provide related planning, coordination, financing, consulting and management services. The company may establish and invest in branches, subsidiaries and other legal entities in Switzerland and abroad, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate and other tangible or intangible assets. Furthermore, the company may provide direct or indirect financing (including as a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling)) to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of any kind for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. This also applies under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming lump risks.