How do you increase the performance on a seeded report without losing functionality?

Summary: The client complains of a seeded report running for 3 to 4 hours, e.g. Fixed Asset Register report and I would like to know suggestions on performance tuning or ways to increase the performance without compromising the functionality of the report.

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