Abstract: A system for providing data analytics results for a process performed in an industrial plant includes a knowledge model repository configured to store semantic knowledge models. The system also includes selection unit configured to select at least one analytics application describing semantically at least one process step and at least one parameter required for accomplishing an analytics task. The system includes a processing unit configured to process the selected analytics application and selected instantiated semantic knowledge models to infer at least one storage location of at least one data source of the industrial plant, and an execution engine configured to execute the selected data analytics application using accessed process data provided by the inferred data sources of the industrial plant to generate the data analytics results.