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Sustainability management is one of the upcoming movements in the 21 ^st century. Communal and private organizations are interested in finding and using "sustainable" solutions and practices. But, there is a lack of available solutions and practices. In the 21 ^st century also, software systems and their underlying business processes are ubiquitous and fundamental for most of the organizations of the industrial society. But, until now, sustainability is not considered by software system engineering. Hence, to support the transition to sustainability, one must have sustainability (aspects) integrated into the software systems and the underlying business processes. Consequently, in this paper a holistic approach is presented to support the complete life cycle of sustainable software system engineering. To realize such an approach, the sustainable business processes and sustainable software systems need to be aligned …