SUISA

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Founded in 1923, SUISA (from Suisse Auteurs) is the society for over 20,000 composers, writers and music publishers in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Thanks to reciprocity agreements concluded with more than 100 sister societies abroad, SUISA represents the worldwide music repertoire of 1.7 million rights-holders, composers, writers and publishers.

SUISA realizes an annual turnover of some CHF 140 million (approximately $123 million) and employs about 200 people in its offices in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano.

The development environment that SUISA chose to build its interface-driven, transaction-oriented services on the mainframe was Cincom Smalltalk.