1. An industrial controller, comprising: a memory that stores executable components; a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a transformation component configured to modify raw data generated by an industrial control program executed by the industrial controller in accordance with at least one requirement of an industrial analytics application executing on a cloud platform to yield transformed data; a customer profile component configured to append customer-specific information to the transformed data to yield profiled data; and a cloud gateway component configured to send the profiled data to the industrial analytics application.