KPI's on OLTP DB

Can we use an OLTP DB for our OLAP Cube and KPI's?
Is is common to have multiple data sources and cube in a BI solution?

Yes no problem with that
But one issue would be that underlying tables wont be designed as per OLAP system ie mostly tables would be normalized so you would require more joins to retrieve require data . Also level of indexing would be less as its OLTP and is mostly target of DML
operations. Also you would need further logic to transform them into facts and dimensions. If you create an OLAP system as per star schema then things would be straightforward and hence data processing jobs would take much less time and resources.
Yes you can have multiple cubes each targeting different set of audience and representing different version of data.
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