ECNext has announced the launch of Manta as a search destination for sources of business intelligence. Manta is ECNext's ecommerce Web site for business professionals searching the Web for answers to questions about their markets, customers, competitors, suppliers, and other critical business data.

Manta surfaces business content from the "deep Web", and then provides a pay-per-view sales model and a personalized "reading room" that provides the buyers with online access to what they are looking for. The initial release of Manta contains company information and reports from D&B covering more than 30 million companies worldwide, and from Datamonitor, a premium business information company specializing in industry analysis.

(www.ecnext.com; www.manta.com)