# Product Manager Resources and Training

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-manager-resources-and-training/277370>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-manager-resources-and-training/277370 "2021-06-29T16:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiomans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@Tiomans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tiomans)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-manager-resources-and-training/277370/1 "2021-06-29T16:01:40Z")

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Hi!

I recently joined an e-commerce organization where I'm in charge of optimizing our site's search experience for customers. I am new to ElasticSearch and was wondering if there is training / resources tailored to PM's like myself which discuss the following topics:

- ElasticSearch e-commerce search best practices
- How to create search configurations
- KPI’s / metrics to monitor the health of search and success for new configuration

Much of the resources I've found thus far focus on technical integration and management of ES.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![nickchow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickchow/32/42547_2.png) [@nickchow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickchow)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-manager-resources-and-training/277370/2 "2021-06-29T18:32:08Z")

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Hi Brad,

Welcome! I've broken up your question into two parts – resources on best practices and KPIs, and configuring search.

**Elasticsearch e-commerce best practices, KPIs, and metrics:**

There's some great content from existing e-commerce users. I've added a couple links below, there's content there about using Elastic products for e-commerce, KPIs, and monitoring:

- [Here's a webinar with Ikea's former SVP of digital transformation](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/firechat-acceleration-of-ecommerce-with-former-svp-of-digital-transformation-at-ikea?ultron=en-firechat-acceleration-of-ecommerce-with-former-svp-of-digital-transformation-at-ikea&blade=ecommerce&hulk=discuss).
- [This is a talk from ElasticON by Honeywell](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/archive/2020/global/customer-success-at-honeywell-with-elastic-enterprise-search?blade=ecommerce&hulk=discuss).

**Creating search configurations:**

For Elasticsearch, there are tons of resources around text analysis and creating basic search queries. [Here is a getting started webinar with the basics](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-elasticsearch).

It's worth noting there is going to be a base level of technical knowledge needed to reason through configuring Elasticsearch. But there's an alternative! [Elastic App Search](https://www.elastic.co/app-search/) is built on top of Elasticsearch with pre-built tooling for search use cases like e-commerce. If you're looking to dive in quickly and need comprehensive search configuration tooling without technical Elasticsearch knowledge, it may be a good choice. (App Search is the product of choice for the Honeywell presentation linked above.)

If it's useful, [this quickstart](https://www.elastic.co/training/app-search-quick-start) should cover everything from ingestion to search configuration for App Search.

Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-manager-resources-and-training/277370/3 "2022-11-04T08:31:18Z")

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