The company's purpose is to provide services and trade in goods of all kinds in the field of information technology. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell operating sites, real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all legal transactions that may be necessary or useful for the achievement of its purpose or for the development of the company or its group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, its direct or indirect shareholders and companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, whether by way of loans or other financing, and provide security for their obligations of any kind, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.