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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

The API development team works together to build APIs that serve the customers; developers build applications using these APIs that serve the end customers. Even though the API development team is a few steps removed from the end customers, as we saw in the digital value chain, their work is crucial to enabling developers to build applications that impact millions of people across the world. Building APIs that lay the foundation for building innovative applications also unlocks innovation for developers across the globe.

You can build APIs iteratively and methodically to ensure that you are keeping up with the fast-changing needs of the customer base while keeping an eye on the business goals at all times. Working across the organization to bring together security teams, development teams, testers, developer evangelists, and sales and support teams to deliver APIs that are intuitive, coherent, and consistent is the most rewarding aspect of the role of the API product manager...