The data sources 401-403 may be analyzed by an NLP component 410 to data mine or transcribe relevant information from the content of the data sources 401-403 (e.g., files, records, tables, documents, emails, reports, notes, audio records, video recordings, live-streaming communications, etc.) in order to display the information in a more usable manner and/or provide the information in a more searchable manner. The NLP component 410 may be provided as a cloud service or as a local service.

The intelligent application management system 430 may include the NLP component 410, a content consuming component 411, a characteristic association component 412, and a post-processing analytics component 450. The NLP component 410 may be associated with the content consuming component 411. The content consuming component 411 may be used for inputting, receiving, searching, or collecting various data from the data sources 401-403 and running NLP and AI tools against them, learning the content, such as by using the machine learning component 438. It should be noted that other components of FIG. 4 may also employ one or more NLP systems and the NLP component 410 is merely illustrated by way of example only of use of an NLP system. As the NLP component 410 (including the machine learning component 438) learns different data and/or sets of data, the characteristics association component 412 (or “intelligent characteristics association component”) may use the artificial intelligence to make associations or links between various data or other software components of the data sources 401-403 by determining common concepts, methods, features, systems, licenses, similar characteristics, and/or an underlying common topic.