The company's purpose is to develop, manufacture, design, distribute, market, operate and maintain software in the medical field, as well as to provide related services. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into any business and conclude any contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate, copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds. The company is authorized to conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, as well as to provide guarantees, it may grant direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security of any kind for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.