To help manage changes made to a business space Aware IM has a built-in version control mechanism. It allows making and testing changes to a business space without affecting the normal operation of the system. To make changes to a business space the configurator creates a new version of the business space and makes the changes in that version. Then the modified version can be put under test to verify that the changes work as expected. After that the new version can be published, i.e. made operational. The state of a newly created version is ‘New’, state of a version being tested is ‘Under Test’, the operational version, i.e. the one used in the operation mode has state 'Current', the state of the former operational version is 'Obsolete'.

All the configuration work for a business space is done in a version of that business space. The configuration information of a business space version can be exported into or imported from a file, which makes configuration information portable between different Aware IM installations. In particular it allows people to prepare configuration templates for others to use.