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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

API Life Cycle and Maturity

At this point, you have now learned about and are familiar with the various types of products, including B2B products, B2C products, platform products, and API products. You have also learned about the role of a product manager and how different types of product managers have a wide range of commonly-found skills alongside a set of particular skills unique to their specialization. In this chapter, we will focus on certain aspects of API products that are critical for API product managers to understand so that they can analyze the API products available on the market and help shape the API products they lead.

In this chapter, you will look at some case studies of the most prominent API companies to understand how they establish and communicate their API life cycles and maturity to their customers, covering the following key aspects of APIs as a product:

  • API product life cycle
  • API governance
  • API maturity