The development and marketing of software, the provision of IT services and IT consulting, the management and hosting of information systems, the trade of software and hardware as well as personnel placement. The company may also engage in any other activity directly or indirectly related to these purposes; it may in particular create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts suitable for developing and extending its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may also grant loans or any other form of financing, as well as provide securities of any kind, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the assets of the company, for the direct or indirect benefit of companies of the same group, its partners, their relatives or third parties.