Doc-To-Help releases Nest Server

PITTSBURGH, USA: Doc-To-Help, a product in the content authoring and publishing tool market, has announced the Beta release of Nest Server. It is a free cloud service for hosting NetHelp outputs and is a companion product of Doc-To-Help.

"Doc-To-Help is already well known for how it makes modern, high-quality, and responsive web-based Help easy to produce, and now with Nest Server we are taking it a step further by giving users a free 'Nest' to host it in," said Dan Beall, product manager at ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity.

Nest Server, is a cloud service that will host Doc-To-Help NetHelp outputs and provide user login, rating, commenting, and usage analytics.

"End-users will be able to comment and rate topics, and their usage statistics will be available to content creators. All of this gives the Doc-To-Help user the information they need to create the best experience possible for their readers", said Beall.

The company has developed the service so that Doc-To-Help users will have an admin interface that they can use to configure their service, manage users, and view reports. Since Nest Server is a cloud service, Doc-To-Help users don't need to install anything. They need a URL, user name, and password.

"Our mission is to make life as easy as possible for Technical Communicators," said Beall. "We want them to focus on creating quality content while we take care of the technology that formats, designs, and hosts it."

With Nest Server, Doc-To-Help users don't have to install NetHelp on the web themselves, users can upload their files.

Nest Server will be available for a limited number of Beta users. The company has planned to release it to the general market in the summer of 2014.