Cannot complete this action as the Secure Store Shared Service is not responding. Please contact your administrator.

While configuring the performance point 2010 I got the following issue

Cannot complete this action as the Secure Store Shared Service is not responding. Please contact your administrator.

After trying many approaches, I found the solution

1. Make sure the SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool is running.

2. Go to System Settings -> Manage services on server

Following services should be enabled

PerformancePoint Service

Secure Store Service

Claims to Windows Token Service

3. Go to Application Management -> Manage service applications

4. Check the Secure Store is started

5. Go to App-pool and make sure the the associated App pool is running

6. Reset the IIS