Author: Amrita Gopalakrishnan is a Product Manager at Anaplan.
Decisions do not wait until you are back at your desk. In today’s fast-paced corporate landscape, executives, directors, and field managers are constantly on the move - traveling between sites, heading to board meetings, or catching flights. Yet, traditional enterprise reporting has always suffered from a "laptop constraint."
When crucial data is locked behind complex desktop interfaces, business-critical updates are often delayed. To bridge the gap, teams frequently resort to manual Excel dumps or static PowerPoint exports, rendering planning data outdated the moment it leaves the system.
With the release of Anaplan Management Reporting on mobile, we are breaking down that final barrier. Now, your structured, executive-ready report pages are fully accessible on your mobile and tablet devices, keeping your leadership connected to the live pulse of the business.
The end of the "static presentation" bottleneck
For years, the standard process for preparing board meetings looked like this: finance teams would scramble to extract data from multiple systems, consolidate it in spreadsheets, format it into slides, and export a static PDF. If a number changed or a scenario was questioned during the meeting, the team had to take notes, run calculations back at their desks, and schedule a follow-up.
Management Reporting on mobile completely eliminates this friction.
Because mobile report pages are connected directly to the Anaplan platform, they display real-time, consolidated enterprise data. Executives can review high-fidelity, presentation-ready slides on their iPad during a flight or transit, with full confidence that the numbers are accurate, secure, and completely up to date.
Why mobile management reporting changes the game
- A single source of truth, everywhere: Say goodbye to fragmented reporting. Connect your actuals, forecasts, and third-party data directly to your mobile screens, bringing financial and operational KPIs into a unified view.
- Responsive, slide-style storytelling: These are not standard, messy spreadsheets crammed onto a small screen. Report pages retain their exact desktop layout and design hierarchy, displaying beautifully formatted slides, presentation tables, and inline narrative commentary that automatically adapt to your device.
- Rapid on-the-go approvals: Keep critical operational cycles moving. If a budget adjustment or headcount request requires executive approval, leadership can review the context and sign off directly from the mobile app — no laptop required.
- Seamless navigation and action: Tap context selectors to instantly toggle between "Global," "North America," or "Europe" views. Run calculations or trigger page actions using custom mobile-ready buttons designed to make mobile planning as intuitive as a consumer app.
Decisions at the speed of business
True business agility means planning and acting in the moment. With Management Reporting on mobile, you no longer have to wait to get back to the office to run a "what-if" scenario or review Q3 forecasts.
Whether you are presenting to the board, walking a factory floor, or reviewing territory performance on a business trip, Anaplan puts the power of Connected Planning directly in your hands. Experience the freedom of interactive, real-time, executive-level reporting on the go, and start making smarter decisions, faster.
