The company's purpose is to develop and distribute software and provide marketing consulting services. The company may engage in all commercial, contractual and financial transactions that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold and sell intellectual property rights and licenses of any kind. The company may acquire, manage and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. The company may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as grant financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), provide security of any kind, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not.