KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., July 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERX) (“Vertex” or the “Company”), the Decision-to-Defense™ global indirect tax and compliance company, today released new research pointing to a structural shift in how global enterprises must manage indirect tax and compliance. As governments move compliance obligations directly into the transaction — with invoice-level precision that varies by market and changes continuously — the research finds that indirect tax has outgrown its back-office origins and become a real-time, board-level discipline: an era Vertex defines as Decision-to-Defense.