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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

To get the most out of this book

It is recommended that you have a good understanding of web development, software development, product management, and data analysis to get the most out of this book. The prerequisites include the following:

  • A basic understanding of what APIs are and how they work
  • Familiarity with programming concepts and experience with web development would be beneficial, as would an understanding of the software development life cycle and product management concepts
  • It would be helpful for you to have some prior experience with data analysis and an understanding of KPIs, as the book covers how to design metrics for measuring APIs from the infrastructure, product, and business perspectives, and how to identify the right KPIs for API products and build a product strategy
  • Additionally, it would be beneficial for you to have some understanding of user experience research and user-centered design, as the book covers how to build customer empathy for API products and how to use customer research to inform product development

There is no special software installation required for this book.