Scarab Research
Scarab Research is a research and development company specialized in recommender systems and machine learning.
History
Scarab Research was founded in 2009 by a group of European scientists and IT engineers. Its development operations were based in Budapest, Hungary.That time personalized recommendations offer had been a new way for returning customers to discover products that match their personal tastes, even though they may never heard of them before.
Before its acquisition, Scarab Research was one of the first Central European companies to develop a scalable, real-time product recommendation engine using machine learning. The company’s technology was implemented by various online retailers across Europe, and contributed significantly to the early adoption of personalization in e-commerce in the region.
In December 2013, Scarab Research was acquired by Emarsys.