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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

Summary

At this point, you should be familiar with the various ways that products are categorized. Understanding the types of products will help you analyze the unique challenges of any product based on its technology, business model, and the relationship between API consumers and API producers.

Looking at API products, you can now understand the architectures and protocols used and the types of APIs across private, public, partner, and internal APIs. With this understanding, you can look at the wide variety of APIs currently on the market and understand how these protocols enable the development of unique API-first products and business opportunities. You are now ready to think of APIs as products.

In the next chapter, you will learn about API product management and develop product thinking to enable you to build an API-first strategy for your organization.