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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

API governance

There is a growing number of companies building APIs. As the number of APIs grows within an organization, consistency becomes a key challenge because external customers approaching these APIs from outside the organization expect a consistent experience and expect all APIs to be compatible and have tight coupling among all components. Inconsistency between different API offerings can lead to customers being confused and increase the time it takes them to integrate the APIs.

API governance is a term coined to describe an enterprise-level set of standards for the design and operation of APIs. APIs can be built in a variety of ways and because of the iterative API development process, it is important that certain design patterns be established early in the life cycle so that APIs can be built across the organization in a way that fits together predictably and reliably.

For APIs to be trusted in terms of safety, availability, scalability, and dependability, API governance...