12. A method comprising using a computer to manage a lifecycle of a platform, including: populating associative memory with plurality of matrices pertaining to lifecycle information about the platform, each matrix including related entity values and attribute values; causing the associative memory to create correlations between each matrix relative to the other matrices; searching the correlations for lifecycle entity and attribute values to investigate a component of the platform; and displaying any highly correlated entity and attribute values that do not include the component under investigation but are highly correlated to the component under investigation; wherein the highly correlated entity is the entity with the highest value that corresponds to a number of times the entity is returned within a repetitive search executed by an entity analytic engine; and updating a plurality of information tools with reports based on other similar components that are either further ahead or behind in the lifecycle of the specified component.
18. The method of claim 12 , wherein a free text query is used to search the correlations.