The production, rental, purchase, sale, and technical assistance of software products and services; consulting, study, design, and implementation of data communication networks; the performance of any form of activity related to information technology and in particular data processing, the management of computer systems, the management, design, and implementation of computer systems and programs; consulting in the field of automation of management and administrative procedures, consulting in the field of business organization and in the definition of strategies of computer programs; the creation of multimedia systems. The company may also develop, purchase, sell, receive for use, and grant the use of technologies; technical know-how, industrial patents, and industrial property rights in general. The company may also carry out all commercial and financial operations deemed necessary or useful functionally connected with the corporate purpose, assume, both directly and indirectly, interests and participations in other companies or artisan, commercial, financial, and service businesses in Switzerland and abroad in the sector related to the corporate purpose or in other sectors.