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Golden in five minutes
Understand what Golden does, learn its basic model, and choose a tutorial or guide for your next task.
Trazadera Golden is a data quality and master data management product. Use it to validate and clean records, inspect quality findings, and correct data; also to match records across sources, review duplicates, and maintain mastered representations of customers, products, suppliers, or other business subjects.
The problem Golden addresses
Data can be incomplete, malformed, or inconsistent even when each subject has only one record. Define the expected structure and validation rules, inspect which fields fail them, and verify the effect of corrections. Start with data quality and validation and cleaning.
When a subject appears in several systems, identifiers and values can also conflict. Golden can group potential duplicates, support review decisions, and create a mastered record for downstream use. Start with duplicate resolution.
Quality assessment and correction are useful on their own; a data-quality workflow does not require merging records.
The lifecycle
The exact path depends on the entity configuration. Some entities provide storage only, some add search, and others add duplicate resolution and stewardship.
The concepts that matter first
| Concept | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Entity | A configured business subject and its Golden capabilities |
| Record | One representation of that subject from a source or mastered table |
| Dataset | The schema and validation rules for a record |
| Table | The managed collection that holds records |
| Bucket or cluster | A group of records that may refer to the same subject |
| Golden record | The mastered representation created from resolved records |
| Resource | Reusable configuration for schemas, data movement, transformation, or resolution |
| Task | Customer-visible progress for work that completes asynchronously |
Read Golden concepts for the canonical relationships.
What Golden exposes
- A web application for data stewardship and product administration.
- A REST API for integrations and automation.
- Import, export, source, and destination workflows configured through Golden.
- Role-based access for viewers, stewards, and administrators.
Learn with Aurelia Utilities
Aurelia Utilities is the example supplied with Golden. It follows a fictional energy retailer whose customer information comes from a CRM and a billing system.
Start with the Aurelia Utilities tutorial, or read Fundamental concepts to understand records, metadata, validation, quality, and duplicate decisions first.
Choose your next task
| Goal | Guide |
|---|---|
| Investigate quality findings and correct records | Investigate data quality |
| Configure validation and cleaning | Configure data quality |
| Work with records and review duplicates | Functional guide |
| Design a solution and its integrations | Architect guide |
| Implement an integration | Developer guide |
| Configure, schedule, and maintain data flows | Operations guide |
| Manage identities and data access | Security |
| Look up fields, resources, and schemas | Data reference |
| Diagnose an unexpected result | Troubleshooting |