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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

Who this book is for

This book is written for product managers, business leaders, and developers who are looking to get the most out of their APIs. It gives an in-depth look at the most important ideas and best practices related to API analytics and product management. This makes it an essential resource for anyone who builds, deploys, or manages API products.

Additionally, this book serves as a valuable resource for security teams, sales teams, operations personnel, and user experience researchers who are involved with APIs. These teams will benefit from the book’s detailed guidance on how to design metrics for measuring API performance, as well as the strategies for understanding user behavior and feedback that can inform the design of more scalable, secure, and user-friendly APIs.