The review cycle setting is the time frame for which the entitlements are validated. The entitlement administrator can define different review cycle settings for different types of data.

For example, an organization might want to validate the entitlements of the financial data two times in a year. However, the HR data might be validated only one time in a year.

The definition of the review cycle setting can be based on the organizational policies of approving entitlements.

A review cycle setting can be set as recurrent or non-recurrent. If you mark a review cycle setting as recurrent, the same review cycle setting repeats after the end of the review cycle setting. For example, if you define a review cycle setting for three months and mark it as recurrent, then the cycle is repeated every three months. Each review cycle setting that is completed becomes a review cycle instance.