Case Study: Vertex Pharmaceuticals achieves streamlined tax solution development with Progress Software

Vertex - Customer Case Study

Vertex Pharmaceuticals needed a better way to handle database connectivity for its tax software, where supporting many hardware and database platforms was creating significant development complexity and slowing updates. To streamline its Communications Tax Q Series product, Vertex turned to Progress Software and its Progress DataDirect Connect for ODBC offering.

Progress Software implemented a common, standards-based connectivity layer that replaced custom database interfaces and gave Vertex broad support across operating systems, database versions, and 32-bit/64-bit environments. The result was less maintenance, faster product releases, and developers freed to focus on revenue-producing tax technology; Vertex also reported significant time savings, responsive support, and even new platform support delivered within 2–3 weeks when needed.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

John Viglione

Chief Technology Officer