ECNext and Snapdata International Group have announced the launch of Snapdata's content set on Manta, 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 business data. Manta surfaces business content from the "deep Web", designed to make it easy for them to find, and then provides a pay-per-view sales model and a personalized "reading room" providing the buyers with online access to what they are looking for.

Snapdata offers a collection of reports specializing in global market research. These reports, compiled since 2001, provide a look at a single market in a single country and allow trends to be identified and tracked over time. Specifically being added to Manta include the Snapshot Series, a collection of more than 7,000 reports covering over 28 industry markets across more than 40 countries and the Global Panorama Series, a collection of over 250 Global and Regional overviews covering countries representing 80%+ of world GDP.

(www.snapdata.com; www.ecnext.com)