I would imagine a large Adagio Financial report would have slower performance versus a similar size Excel spreadsheet. This is because Excel has it's values embedded into the spreadsheet, whereas the Financial report uses a link for every cell to read data from a separate database.

If you were to make a copy of your Ledger data and bring it to your local workstation, and attempt to perform the same functions, do you still see the same performance? If not, then perhaps your network cards/hubs cannot handle the data transfer appropriately. We strongly recommend 100base-T cards and hubs rather than 10base-T. Regardless of the speed of the machines, network speed with have a vast influence over performance.

If the local copy of the data also performs very slowly, that's a different story. Please let us know should this be a problem.