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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 releasing APIs in an iterative way

A product-focused API provider can gather insights to groom a backlog of updates and decide whether to mature or shut down features or products through an iterative process of creating hypotheses, testing them, and unpacking discoveries. API providers have the responsibility to keep up with changing trends and the demands of developers so that they continue to meet the needs of their users and satisfy their curiosity.

On the other hand, projects normally have a defined beginning and finish time. In most cases, organizations that want to improve upon the results of a project must start from scratch by assembling a new team, securing additional money, and relaunching the program. To put it simply, this is a rather inconvenient method of doing things. As a result of having an MVP, continuing operational processes, and a product manager responsible for assessing and pushing the product’s performance from the start, businesses that...