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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

Through the chapters of this book, you learned about the role of the API product manager, API lifecycle, maturity models, customer journey, designing effective API experiences, infrastructure, business and product metrics for APIs. These frameworks would enable you to get the insights that you can use to set an effective product strategy for your APIs.

Putting together a product strategy can be challenging but bringing together market research and customer stories enables you to establish an inspiring mission and vision that your team would be excited to work towards. While well-defined long-term goals will help you communicate to your stakeholders how you plan to realize the vision for your product, short-term goals help various teams involved with your product to plan their work and find alignment as you work towards shared goals.

APIs are no different from any other products. You have a unique opportunity to bring customer empathy and data-driven decision-making to...