Like most things - it depends 🙂 If you're using MOLAP storage (and a lsot of people do) then no, they're not connected. Changes made in the source data will require reprocessing of OLAP objects to have that data flow flow. If it's using ROLAP storage (incl. usage of proactive caching) then yes, you will see the data changes flow through ('immediately' is a somewhat subject term though 😉 ).