This document discusses how marketing is transitioning to the cloud. It notes that modern marketing focuses on permission and inbound techniques like content marketing rather than interruptive outbound approaches. The cloud allows integrating marketing automation tools and centralizing data in a CRM like Salesforce to eliminate data silos. Integrating applications through connectors and plugins streamlines processes and allows marketing to be replaced by automated apps. The future of marketing involves technology like predictive analytics and CMOs becoming chief marketing technologists.