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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

Building and Managing API Products

In previous chapters, we learned about viewing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as products and how maturity and governance are established across the API life cycle. In this chapter, we will start to dig deeper into the process of building and managing API products and how to phase this process so that we can do so methodically and systematically.

As you advance an API product from an experimental product to a more mature product, you must continue to develop the product strategy to keep up with evolving customer expectations and stakeholder needs. In this chapter, we will look at the various aspects of building and managing API products in line with these evolving needs as the API goes through its maturity life cycle.

We will cover the following aspects in this chapter:

  • APIs in the digital value chain
  • Leading with the API strategy
  • The API development team
  • Managing an API as a product
  • The API proposal
  • Designing...