An industrial data broker system , comprising: a memory that stores executable components; and a processor , operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a device interface component configured to receive industrial data from an industrial device , wherein respective data items of the industrial data are labeled with analytic topics to which the respective data items are relevant; an analytic system interface component configured to receive subscription data from an external system requesting to subscribe to a topic of the analytic topics; and a data stream publishing component configured to, in response to receipt of the subscription data, establish a data channel to the external system that streams a subset of the industrial data corresponding to the topic to the external system, wherein the industrial data comprises time-series values of the respective data items of the industrial data and pre-modelled contextualization data for assisting artificial intelligence, Al, analysis, the contextualization data defining relationships between data items of the industrial data relevant to a defined objective, wherein the data channel streams, to the external system, a subset of the time-series values and a subset of the contextualization data corresponding to the subset of the industrial data, and wherein the external system is an industrial AI analytic system configured to perform analytics on the subset of the industrial data to yield an insight relevant to the topic. a memory that stores executable components; and a processor , operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a device interface component configured to receive industrial data from an industrial device , wherein respective data items of the industrial data are labeled with analytic topics to which the respective data items are relevant; an analytic system interface component configured to receive subscription data from an external system requesting to subscribe to a topic of the analytic topics; and a data stream publishing component configured to, in response to receipt of the subscription data, establish a data channel to the external system that streams a subset of the industrial data corresponding to the topic to the external system, a device interface component configured to receive industrial data from an industrial device , wherein respective data items of the industrial data are labeled with analytic topics to which the respective data items are relevant; an analytic system interface component configured to receive subscription data from an external system requesting to subscribe to a topic of the analytic topics; and a data stream publishing component configured to, in response to receipt of the subscription data, establish a data channel to the external system that streams a subset of the industrial data corresponding to the topic to the external system, wherein the industrial data comprises time-series values of the respective data items of the industrial data and pre-modelled contextualization data for assisting artificial intelligence, Al, analysis, the contextualization data defining relationships between data items of the industrial data relevant to a defined objective, wherein the data channel streams, to the external system, a subset of the time-series values and a subset of the contextualization data corresponding to the subset of the industrial data, and wherein the external system is an industrial AI analytic system configured to perform analytics on the subset of the industrial data to yield an insight relevant to the topic. <EOS>