13. The method of claim 12 , wherein managing the lifecycle further includes populating the associative memory with a plurality of matrices pertaining to platform non-conformances.
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.