## 13.13.4.2.2.2  Communication Destinations
## Overview
Policy Management provides functions for data exchange with other application components. These application components can be found either in separate systems or in the same system. To enable you to access these application components, an RFM (Remote Function Module) destination must be created for the relevant system. This RFM destination establishes a connection between Policy Management and the external system.
Note the following with regard to communication destinations:
## · Connection
- If the application component is in the same system, the destination is NONE .
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- If the application component is in a separate system, you must create a user-defined RFM destination for each external system that interacts with Policy Management, and you must also ensure that the external systems use the correct RFM destination. You define which application component should use which RFM destination in Customizing for SAP Insurance under Policy Management Integration Process Primary Settings for Interfaces to External Systems . Access to the external system can be screen-based (online) or non-screen-based (offline). It is possible that both of these access types will be executed by different users with different authorizations. You can therefore enter two destinations for each application component in the Customizing activity Process Primary Settings for Interfaces to External Systems (one RFM destination for online access and
one for offline access). You can assign different users with different authorizations for accessing the external system to these RFM destinations.
- The RFM destination configured in transaction SM59 determines which user is used to access the external system. For each RFM destination, you can enter the user to be used to access the external system. You either enter a user name or specify the current user.
If you use the current user to access the external system, the system displays a log-on dialog box where the user must enter a password to log on to the external system. You can bypass this dialog box by establishing a trusted/trusting connection between the two systems. This means that if there is an RFM between a trusted and trusting system, a password is no longer sent when you log on to the trusting system.
##  Caution
Note that Policy Management users require special authorization to access external application components. To ensure that only authorized users can access the data on external systems, SAP recommends that you create a trusted relationship between Policy Management and the external system and that you always use the current user to access data.
## Connection Destinations
| Destination                                                        | Delivered   | Type   |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|--------|
| RFMdestination for product runtime                                 | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Business Partner for Financial Services (FS-BP) | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Collections and Disbursements (FS-CD)           | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Financials (FI)                                 | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Incentive and Com- mission Management (FS-ICM)  | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Portfolio Assign- ment (PFO)                    | No          | RFM    |
| RFMdestination for Organizational Management (OM)                  | No          | RFM    |