A method and arrangement for providing data from an industrial automation arrangement to an external application operated in a data cloud and arranged outside a first data network, where an industrial Edge device processes raw data from the data source and makes the processed data available to the external application, the external application transmits a work order to the gateway component, the work order is checked by the gateway component, the raw data are captured and processed according to the work order, and the processed, abstracted and/or anonymized data are provided to the external application or a destination defined in the work order, such that an external user can automatically control access and hence use the data without accessing the underlying raw data because the level of data access is automatically negotiated and produced between the components involved (data source, gateway component) while taking into account requirements and rules.