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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

The role of the product manager

Product management is the process of planning, developing, launching, and marketing a product. It involves identifying customer needs, developing a product strategy, and overseeing the development and delivery of a product or service to the market.

Product management is a cross-functional role that involves working with different departments such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales. The product manager is responsible for defining the product vision and strategy, setting product goals and objectives, and ensuring that the product meets the needs of the target market.

The main responsibilities of a product manager include the following:

  • Identifying customer needs and market trends: Conducting research to understand customer needs and market trends, and using that information to define the product vision and strategy
  • Developing a product roadmap: Creating a plan for the development and launch of a product, and ensuring that it...