The purpose of the company is to provide general IT consulting services, develop software products in the field of IT infrastructure and security, and offer integrated solutions that include both hardware and software components. The company may provide IT services, buy and sell software and programming services, provide computer support, as well as supply and distribute IT products and outsourcing services. Furthermore, the company may participate directly or indirectly in the group's financing activities, particularly by granting loans to its direct or indirect subsidiaries or to other affiliated companies, or by providing guarantees, bonds, or other forms of security for their obligations to third parties, even if such loans or guarantees are granted free of charge and serve exclusively the interests of its subsidiaries or other affiliated companies, all this however excluding the exercise of banking and insurance activities. The company may also buy, sell, distribute, manage, receive, and grant the use of technologies, technical know-how, patents, trademarks, licenses, and intellectual property rights in sectors related to the company's purpose. The company may directly or indirectly acquire interests and participations in other industrial, commercial, financial, and service companies in Switzerland or abroad, in sectors related to the company's purpose or in other sectors, and open branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. Finally, the company may carry out all commercial, industrial, and financial operations or other operations deemed necessary or useful, functionally connected with the company's purpose or aimed at achieving it.